Micro-spherically textured organic light emitting diodes: A simple way towards highly increased light extraction

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 396-401

  Bocksrocker, Tobias ^a   Hoffmann, Jörg ^a   Eschenbaum, Carsten ^a   Pargner, Andreas ^a   Preinfalk, Jan ^a   Maier Flaig, Florian ^a   Lemmer, Uli ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light extraction; OLED; Organic light emitting diodes; Outcoupling

Indexed keywords

DIODES; EFFICIENCY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICA;

DEVICE EFFICIENCY; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT EXTRACTION; OLED; OUTCOUPLING; WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84872412271     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

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