Coherent mode coupling in highly efficient top-emitting OLEDs on periodically corrugated substrates

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7524-7537

  Schwab, Tobias ^a   Fuchs, Cornelius ^a   Scholz, Reinhard ^a   Zakhidov, Alexander ^b   Leo, Karl ^a   Gather, Malte C ^a,c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTORESISTS;

CORRUGATED SUBSTRATES; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MICROCAVITY EFFECTS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PHOTORESIST LAYERS; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; TOP-EMITTING OLEDS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84898636092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.007524     Document Type: Article

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