Comprehensive efficiency analysis of organic light-emitting diodes featuring emitter orientation and triplet-to-singlet up-conversion

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt, Tobias D ^a   Setz, Daniel S ^b   Flämmich, Michael ^c   Frischeisen, Jörg ^a   Michaelis, Dirk ^c   Mayr, Christian ^a   Rausch, Andreas F ^b   Wehlus, Thomas ^b   Scholz, Bert J ^a   Reusch, Thilos C G ^b   Danz, Norbert ^c   Brütting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM EMITTING; COMPREHENSIVE EFFICIENCIES; ELECTRICAL EXCITATION; EMITTING SYSTEM; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PHOTOLUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; SINGLET EXCITONS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884194805     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819388     Document Type: Article

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