Flexible bottom-emitting white organic light-emitting diodes with semitransparent Ni/Ag/Ni anode

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 11086-11094

  Koo, Ja Ryong ^a   Lee, Seok Jae ^a   Lee, Ho Won ^a   Lee, Dong Hyung ^a   Yang, Hyung Jin ^a   Kim, Woo Young ^b   Kim, Young Kwan ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b Hoseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ITO GLASS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

BOTTOM EMITTING; CHARGE BALANCES; EMITTING LAYER; HOLE INJECTION; HOLE-ELECTRON RECOMBINATION; MULTI-LAYERED; OXYGEN PLASMAS; WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

NANOWIRE; NICKEL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ILLUMINATION; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

COLOR; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MICROELECTRODES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NICKEL; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILVER;

EID: 84878536118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011086     Document Type: Article

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