Efficiency enhancement of organic light-emitting devices by using honeycomb metallic electrodes and two-dimensional photonic crystal arrays

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3043-3051

  Peng, Kai Yu ^a,c   Ho, Yu Hsuan ^b,c   Wei, Da Hua ^a   Yu, Yueh Chung ^d   Yao, Yeong Der ^d   Tian, Wei Cheng ^b   Wei, Pei Kuen ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extraction efficiency enhancement; Metallic electrode; Nanosphere lithography; Organic light emitting devices; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CURRENT DENSITY; EFFICIENCY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSPHERES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILVER; TIN OXIDES;

CURRENT EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; METALLIC ELECTRODES; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; POLYSTYRENE NANOSPHERES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84907221023     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.08.054     Document Type: Article

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