Laminated Graphene Films for Flexible Transparent Thin Film Encapsulation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 14725-14731

  Seo, Hong Kyu ^a   Park, Min Ho ^a   Kim, Young Hoon ^a   Kwon, Sung Joo ^a   Jeong, Su Hun ^a   Lee, Tae Woo ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

flexible lamination encapsulation; graphene; lifetime; polymer light emitting diodes (PLED); water vapor transmission rate (WVTR)

Indexed keywords

DIODES; GRAPHENE; LAMINATING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; POLYMERS; SILICONES; THIN FILMS;

FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT - EMITTING DIODES; LIFETIME; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; TRANSPARENT THIN FILM; WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE;

DATA ENCAPSULATION;

EID: 84975231465     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01639     Document Type: Article

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