Ultrathin, highly flexible and stretchable PLEDs

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 811-816

  White, Matthew S ^a   Kaltenbrunner, Martin ^a,b,c   Głowacki, Eric D ^a   Gutnichenko, Kateryna ^a   Kettlgruber, Gerald ^a   Graz, Ingrid ^a   Aazou, Safae ^d,e   Ulbricht, Christoph ^f   Egbe, Daniel A M ^a   Miron, Matei C ^a   Major, Zoltan ^a   Scharber, Markus C ^a   Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ^b,c   Someya, Takao ^b,c   Bauer, Siegfried ^a   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; DEVICE OPERATIONS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; RADII OF CURVATURE; ULTRA-THIN;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TEXTILES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 84885022214     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.188     Document Type: Article

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