Stable bending performance of flexible organic light-emitting diodes using IZO anodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kwak, Kiyeol ^a   Cho, Kyoungah ^a   Kim, Sangsig ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84885152938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02787     Document Type: Article

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