• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 2, Issue 1, 92 (2009)
Bo QU, Zhijian CHEN*, Lixin XIAO, Fangwen LUO, and Qihuang GONG
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  • State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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    Bo QU, Zhijian CHEN, Lixin XIAO, Fangwen LUO, Qihuang GONG. Full-color OLEDs based on conjugated materials[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009, 2(1): 92 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Bo QU, Zhijian CHEN, Lixin XIAO, Fangwen LUO, Qihuang GONG. Full-color OLEDs based on conjugated materials[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2009, 2(1): 92
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