Highly flexible, electrically driven, top-emitting, quantum dot light-emitting stickers

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8224-8231

  Yang, Xuyong ^a   Mutlugun, Evren ^a,b,d   Dang, Cuong ^a   Dev, Kapil ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Tan, Swee Tiam ^a   Sun, Xiao Wei ^a   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a,b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ABDULLAH GUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

electroluminescence; flexibility; light emitting diodes; polyimide tape; quantum dot

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); POLYIMIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CURVED SURFACES; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; INFORMATION DISPLAY; MECHANICALLY ROBUST; QUANTUM-DOT LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; SOLID STATE LIGHTING;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84906708532     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502588k     Document Type: Article

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