Enhanced light extraction from organic light-emitting devices using a sub-anode grid

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 758-763

  Qu, Yue ^a   Slootsky, Michael ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CURRENT DENSITY; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LIGHT EMISSION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION OF WAVEGUIDED LIGHT; LIGHTING APPLICATIONS; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; SURFACE PLASMON MODES; TRANSPARENT ANODES;

ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED);

EID: 84946481577     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.194     Document Type: Article

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