Transparent SiON/Ag/SiON multilayer passivation grown on a flexible polyethersulfone substrate using a continuous roll-to-roll sputtering system

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Han Ki ^a   Cho, Chung Ki ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FILM PREPARATION; MULTILAYERS; NITRIDES; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PASSIVATION; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMONS; TEMPERATURE;

FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT - EMITTING DIODES; LOW- TEMPERATURE PROCESS; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; SILICON OXYNITRIDES; SURFACE PLASMON EFFECTS; THIN FILM PASSIVATION; WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862931970     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-69     Document Type: Article

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