Periodic nanostructuring for guided mode extraction in organic light-emitting diodes

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hauss, Julian ^a,b   Riedel, Boris ^a,b   Gleiss, Sebastian ^a   Geyer, Ulf ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^a   Gerken, Martina ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bragg scattering; Finite difference time domain; Guided modes; Light extraction; Organic light emitting diodes; Transfer matrix

Indexed keywords

BRAGG SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GUIDED MODES; LIGHT EXTRACTION; TRANSFER MATRIXES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOLITHOGRAPHY; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLASMA ETCHING; TIN; TIN OXIDES; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79954482433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3544495     Document Type: Article

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