Causes of driving voltage rise in phosphorescent organic light emitting devices during prolonged electrical driving

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Siboni, Hossein Zamani ^a   Aziz, Hany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-PHENYLPYRIDINE; BLOCKING LAYERS; DRIVING VOLTAGES; ELECTRICAL DRIVING; EMISSION LAYERS; GUEST MOLECULES; HOST:GUEST; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES;

IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORESCENCE;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 84868033727     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4764021     Document Type: Article

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