Improved performance of organic light-emitting diodes with MoO3 interlayer by oblique angle deposition

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4513-4520

  Liu, S W ^a   Divayana, Y ^a   Sun, X W ^a,b   Wang, Y ^a   Leck, K S ^a   Demir, H V ^a,c,d,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE; DEVICE CURRENTS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; MOLYBDENUM TRIOXIDE; OBLIQUE ANGLES; OBLIQUE DEPOSITION ANGLE; OBLIQUE-ANGLE DEPOSITION; POWER EFFICIENCY; SURFACE NORMALS; THIN FILM ARCHITECTURES;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM TRIOXIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLYBDENUM; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952149365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004513     Document Type: Article

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