In-situ switching from barrier-limited to ohmic anodes for efficient organic optoelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 3051-3058

  Tan, Zhi Kuang ^a   Vaynzof, Yana ^a   Credgington, Dan ^a   Li, Cheng ^a   Casford, Mike T L ^b   Sepe, Alessandro ^a   Huettner, Sven ^a   Nikolka, Mark ^a   Paulus, Fabian ^a   Yang, Le ^a   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a   Greenham, Neil C ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

interface modification; ohmic anodes; organic light emitting diodes; organic photovoltaics; solvent treatment

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON INJECTION; EXTRACTION; LUMINANCE; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SOLVENTS;

HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INTERFACE MODIFICATION; LOW COST MANUFACTURING; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLVENT TREATMENT;

WORK FUNCTION;

EID: 84901622627     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201303426     Document Type: Article

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