Tunable surface plasmon-polariton resonance in organic light-emitting devices based on corrugated alloy electrodes

Xue-Mei Wen; Yan-Gang Bi; Fang-Shun Yi; Xu-Lin Zhang; Yue-Feng Liu; Wen-Quan Wang; Jing Feng; Hong-Bo Sun

doi:10.29026/oea.2021.200024

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