Flexible organic light-emitting devices with a smooth and transparent silver nanowire electrode

Optical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Cui, Hai Feng ^a   Zhang, Yi Fan ^a   Li, Chuan Nan ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

flexible; organic light emitting devices; silver nanowires; template stripping; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

FLEXIBLE; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; SILVER NANOWIRES; TEMPLATE STRIPPING; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 84938971261     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.7.077102     Document Type: Article

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