Strategies for light extraction from surface plasmons in organic light-emitting diodes

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Frischeisen, Jörg ^a   Scholz, Bert J ^a   Arndt, Benedikt J ^a   Schmidt, Tobias D ^a   Gehlhaar, Robert ^b   Adachi, Chihaya ^b   Brüttinga, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gratings; Light extraction; Organic light emitting diodes; Outcoupling efficiency; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE MODEL; EXCITED STATE LIFETIMES; LIGHT EXTRACTION; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL EFFICIENCY; PRISM COUPLINGS; SURFACE PLASMONS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; THEORETICAL POINTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EFFICIENCY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

PLASMONS;

EID: 84858971686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3523314     Document Type: Article

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