Suppressing surface plasmon losses to improve the efficiency of blue organic light-emitting diodes using the plasmonic quasi-bandgap phenomenon

Tae-Woo Lee; Dohong Kim; Jun Hee Han; Somin Lee; Hoseung Lee; Seungyeop Choi; Kyung Cheol Choi

doi:10.1364/PRJ.418160

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