High luminance organic light-emitting diodes with efficient multi-walled carbon nanotube hole injectors

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4163-4170

  Shi, Shengwei ^a   Silva, S Ravi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; CURRENT EFFICIENCY; DEVICE STRUCTURES; EFFECTIVE WORK FUNCTION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HOLE INJECTION; HOLE INJECTORS; HOLE-ONLY DEVICE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; ORGANIC ACTIVE LAYERS; SOLUTION PROCESSABLE;

ASPECT RATIO; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON INJECTION; JET PUMPS; LUMINANCE;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84862762853     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.04.065     Document Type: Article

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