Non-isotropic emitter orientation and its implications for efficiency analysis of organic light-emitting diodes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8435, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Tobias D ^a   Flämmich, Michael ^b   Scholz, Bert J ^a   Michaelis, Dirk ^b   Mayr, Christian ^a   Danz, Norbert ^b   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

external quantum efficiency; Organic light emitting diode; oriented emitting systems; outcoupling efficiency; radiative quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EFFICIENCY LOSS; ELECTRICAL POWER; EMITTING SYSTEM; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENT EMITTERS; GUEST-HOST SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL SIMULATION; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); ORIENTATION EFFECT; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; PARALLEL DIPOLES; RADIATED ENERGIES; SURFACE PLASMONS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOSPHORESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862288429     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.921537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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