Thermal annealing below the glass transition temperature: A general way to increase performance of light-emitting diodes based on copolyfluorenes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 634-636

  Niu, Yu Hua ^a   Hou, Qiong ^a   Cao, Yong ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYFLUORENE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT; POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TIME-PERIODS;

ANNEALING; CARRIER MOBILITY; GLASS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LUMINANCE; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 79956024642     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1495898     Document Type: Article

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