Materials and interface engineering in organic light-emitting diodes

Organic Electronics: Materials, Processing, Devices and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-261

  Huang, Fei ^a   Jen, Alex K Y ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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