Highly efficient, color-pure, color-stable blue quantum dot light-emitting devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7295-7302

  Lee, Ki Heon ^a   Lee, Jeong Hoon ^a   Song, Woo Seuk ^a   Ko, Heejoo ^b   Lee, Changho ^b   Lee, Jong Hyuk ^b   Yang, Heesun ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

blue quantum dot; high color stability; high efficiency; light emitting diode

Indexed keywords

BLUE QUANTUM DOT; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES;

COLOR; DISPLAY DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84883235659     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402870e     Document Type: Article

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