Determining emissive dipole orientation in organic light emitting devices by decay time measurement

Organic Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3079-3084

  Penninck, L ^a   Steinbacher, F ^b   Krause, R ^b   Neyts, K ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole orientation; Exciton decay time; Optical outcoupling; Organic LEDs; Phosporescent emitters

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); EXCITONS;

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; EXCITON DECAY; OPTICAL OUTCOUPLING; ORGANIC LEDS; PHOSPORESCENT EMITTERS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84867369787     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.09.014     Document Type: Article

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