Effects of polymer sidebranching in double- and single-layer polyfluorene light-emitting diodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 3832-3834

  Nakazawa, Y K ^a   Carter, S A ^a   Nothofer, H G ^b   Scherf, U ^b   Lee, V Y ^c   Miller, R D ^c   Scott, J C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTROLUMINESCENT POLYMERS; EXCITON RECOMBINATION; HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS; LIGHT OUTPUT; MINIMAL EFFECTS; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER MORPHOLOGY; RELATIVE EMISSION; SIDEBRANCHING; SINGLE LAYER; VIBRATIONAL ENERGY LEVELS;

LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 79956045143     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1473692     Document Type: Article

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