Quantitative allocation of Bragg scattering effects in highly efficient OLEDs fabricated on periodically corrugated substrates

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16319-16330

  Fuchs, C ^a   Schwab, T ^a   Roch, T ^a   Eckardt, S ^a   Lasagni, A ^a,b   Hofmann, S ^a   Lussem B ^a   Muller Meskamp, L ^a   Leo, K ^a   Gather, M C ^a   Scholz, R ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL AND BEAM TECHNOLOGY IWS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM; CORRUGATED SUBSTRATES; DISPERSION RELATIONS; FLEXIBLE ADJUSTMENT; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PERIODIC CORRUGATION; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84880544715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016319     Document Type: Article

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