Emerging transparent conducting electrodes for organic light emitting diodes

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 190-204

  Song, Tze Bin ^a,b   Li, Ning ^b  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Conductive polymer; Graphene; Metallic nanowire; Organic light emitting diode; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926679072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics3010190     Document Type: Review

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