Flexible Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display Using Air-Stable Organic Semiconductor of Dinaphtho[2, 3-b: 2′, 3′-f]thieno[3, 2-b]-thiophene

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3442-3449

  Fujisaki, Yoshihide ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiki ^a   Takei, Tatsuya ^a   Fukagawa, Hirohiko ^a   Yamamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Fujikake, Hideo ^a  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexible display; gate insulator (GI); organic semiconductor (OSC); thin film transistors (TFTs)

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; OLEFINS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SLOPE STABILITY; THIOPHENE;

ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ACTIVE MATRIXES; AIR-STABLE; BACKPLANES; BOTTOM-CONTACT; CARRIER INJECTION; CROSS-LINKABLE; GATE INSULATOR; HIGH MOBILITY; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOW TEMPERATURES; OLED DISPLAYS; OPERATIONAL STABILITY; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; PHOSPHORESCENT OLED; SUBTHRESHOLD SLOPE; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS);

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84870290487     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2012.2220968     Document Type: Article

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