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Chemical Degradation and Physical Aging of Aluminum(III) 8-Hydroxyquinoline: Implications for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Materials Design

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A traditional barrier to marketing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has been achieving devices capable of sustaining brightness levels with minimum drift over long periods of time as well as maintaining longevity while operating at elevated temperatures (e.g., 60–80°C). In many cases, product developers have designed around these problems (e.g., by extensive passivation1,2 or with the driving technology),3 but understanding of the decay processes is still by many means insufficient, especially with respect to the intrinsic limitations imposed by the materials in question. This type of knowledge gives upper-bound design constraints and should give insight in materials or device designs with greater stability or longevity.

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Higginson, K.A., Thomsen, D.L., Yang, B., Papadimitrakopoulos, F. (2004). Chemical Degradation and Physical Aging of Aluminum(III) 8-Hydroxyquinoline: Implications for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Materials Design. In: Shinar, J. (eds) Organic Light-Emitting Devices. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21720-8_3

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