Rheological and drying considerations for uniformly gravure-printed layers: Towards large-area flexible organic light-emitting diodes

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 3164-3171

  Hernandez Sosa, Gerardo ^a,b   Bornemann, Nils ^c   Ringle, Ingo ^d   Agari, Michaela ^d   Dörsam, Edgar ^c   Mechau, Norman ^a,b   Lemmer, Uli ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INNOVATIONLAB   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

gravure printing; organic light emitting diodes; surface tension; viscosity; viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; GRAVURE PRINTING; LIGHT EMITTING POLYMER; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; VISCOUS FINGERING;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DRYING; OFFSET PRINTING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRINTING PRESSES; SOLVENTS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84879745299     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201202862     Document Type: Article

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