Highly efficient polymer-based optoelectronic devices using PEDOT:PSS and a go composite layer as a hole transport layer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2067-2073

  Yu, Jae Choul ^a   Jang, Jeong In ^b   Lee, Bo Ram ^a   Lee, Geon Woong ^b   Han, Joong Tark ^b   Song, Myoung Hoon ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

graphene oxide (GO); PEDOT:PSS; polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs); polymer solar cells (PSCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894130121     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am4051487     Document Type: Article

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