Light outcoupling enhancement from topemitting organic light-emitting diodes made on a nano-sized stochastic texture surface

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 25, 2014, Pages A1687-A1694

  Park, Woo Young ^a   Kwon, Yongwon ^a   Lee, Changhee ^a   Whang, Ki Woong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TEXTURES;

EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL CALCULATIONS; REFERENCE DEVICES; STOCHASTIC TEXTURE; TOP EMITTING ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (TEOLEDS);

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84919649925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.0A1687     Document Type: Article

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