Surface plasmon coupled emission using conjugated light-emitting polymer films

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1127-1138

  Yoon, Hong ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Stavrinou, Paul N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROAD SPECTRAL; EMISSIVE LAYERS; KRETSCHMANN GEOMETRY; LIGHT EMITTING POLYMER; METAL-ORGANIC; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SURFACE PLASMON-COUPLED EMISSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASMONS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84859414843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001127     Document Type: Article

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