Organic light-emitting devices and their applications for flat-panel displays

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-43

  Yu, Gang ^a   Wang, Jian ^b  

^a Diode Solutions   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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155. G Yu, Y Cao, C Zhang, Y Li, J Gao, and AJ Heeger, Complex admittance measurements of polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells: ionic and electronic contributions, Appl. Phys. Lett., 73:111-113, 1998
156. IH Campbell, S Rubin, TA Zawodzinski, JD Kress, RL Martin, DL Smith, NN Barashkov, and JP Ferraris, Controlling Schottky energy barriers in organic electronic devices using self-assembled monolayers, Phys. Rev. B, 54:R14321-R14324, 1996
157. Y Cao, G Yu, and AJ Heeger, Efficient, low operating voltage polymer light-emitting diodes with aluminum as the cathode material, Adv. Mater., 10:917-920, 1998
158. Y Cao, Electrically Active Polymer Compositions and Their Use in Efficient, Low Operating Voltage, Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes with Air-Stable Cathodes, U.S. Patent 5,965,281, 1999
159. U Lemmer, D Vacar, D Moses, and AJ Heeger, Electroluminesence from poly(phenylene vinylene) in a planar metal-polymer-metal structure, Appl. Phys. Lett., 68:3007-3009, 1996
160. MD McGehee, D Vacar, U Lemmer, D Moses, and AJ Heeger, Microplanar polymer lightemitting diodes, Synth. Met., 85:1233-1234, 1997
161. G. Yu, Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells in Surface Cell Configuration, U.S. Patent 5,677,546, 1997
162. DuPont Displays, SID Exhibition, Baltimore, May 20-22, 2003
163. DuPont Displays, SID Exhibition, Boston, May 22-27, 2005
164. D Braun, J Rowe, and G Yu, Crosstalk and image uniformity in passive matrix polymer LED displays, Synth. Met., 102:920-921, 1999
165. DuPont Displays, SID Exhibition, May 2000; RiT Displays, SID Exhibition, May 2003
166. DuPont Displays, SID Exhibition, San Jose, June 5-7, 2001
167. Toshiba, SID Exhibition, May 2002; Seiko-Epson, SID Exhibition, May 2003; DuPont Displays, SID Exhibition, May 2003; Samsung, SID Exhibition, May 2003; SK Displays, SID Exhibiton, May 2003
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169. Philips, SID Exhibition, Seattle, May 25-27, 2004
170. SONY, SID Exhibition, Seattle, May 25-27, 2004
171. Samsung SDI, SID Exhibition, Seattle, May 25-27, 2004
172. Toshiba, SID Exhibition, May 2002; Samsung, SID Exhibition, May 2003; IDT=Chi-mei=IBM, SID Exhibiton, May 2003
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175. G Yu, Fabless Business Models for OLED Products. OLEDS 2004, San Diego, 2004
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177. H Tokailin, C Hosokawa, and T Kusomoto, Electroluminescent Element, U.S. Patent 5,126,214, 1992
178. TDK, SID Exhibition, May 2002 and May 2003; SK Displays, SID Exhibition, May 2003
179. M Kashiwabara, K Hanawa, R Asaki, I Kobori, R Matsuura, H Yamada, T Yamamoto, A Ozawa, Y Sato, S Terada, J Yamada, T Sasaoka, S Tamura, and T Urabe, Advanced AM-OLED Display Based on White Emitter with Microcavity Structure. SID 04, Digest, 1017-1019, 2004
180. J Wang and G Yu, Performance Simulation of Active-Matrix OLED Displays, Photonics Asia 2004: Light-Emitting Diode Materials and Devices, Beijing, China, 2004, pp. 32-44.