Multifunctional oxides for integrated manufacturing of efficient graphene electrodes for organic electronics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Kidambi, Piran R ^a,c   Weijtens, Christ ^b   Robertson, John ^a   Hofmann, Stephan ^a   Meyer, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MANUFACTURE; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); OXIDE FILMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TIN OXIDES;

CONVENTIONAL LITHOGRAPHY; INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; INTEGRATION STRATEGY; MULTIFUNCTIONAL OXIDES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; PROCESS COMPATIBILITY; THERMALLY STABLE DOPING; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84923917085     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4908292     Document Type: Article

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