Efficient and bright organic light-emitting diodes on single-layer graphene electrodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Ning ^a   Oida, Satoshi ^a   Tulevski, George S ^a   Han, Shu Jen ^a   Hannon, James B ^a   Sadana, Devendra K ^a   Chen, Tze Chiang ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

ALKENE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ELECTRODE; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHTNING; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRODE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84883077963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3294     Document Type: Article

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