High efficiency blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes with a multiple quantum well structure for reduced efficiency roll-off

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24411-24417

  Yang, Xiao ^a   Zhuang, Shaoqing ^a   Qiao, Xianfeng ^a   Mu, Guangyuan ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Chen, Jiangshan ^b   Ma, Dongge ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DEVICE; CURRENT EFFICIENCY; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM POWER; MULTIPLE QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZED DEVICES; POWER EFFICIENCY;

CONTROL; EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINANCE; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PHOSPHORESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84868254742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024411     Document Type: Article

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