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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 2, Issue 4, 044001(2023)

Printable organic light-emitting diodes for next-generation visible light communications: a review

Kunping Guo1,2、*, Zhe Tang1, Xingxing Chou3, Saihu Pan4, Chunchen Wan1, Tao Xue1, Liping Ding1, Xiao Wang1, Jin Huang1, Fanghui Zhang1、*, and Bin Wei5、*
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  • 1Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, School of Electronic Information and Artificial Intelligence, Xi’an, China
  • 2University College London, Department Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, London, United Kingdom
  • 3Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, School of Electrical and Control Engineering, Xi’an, China
  • 4Changzhou University, School of Microelectronics and Control Engineering, Changzhou, China
  • 5Shanghai University, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Applications, Shanghai, China
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    Received: Dec. 21, 2022

    Accepted: Apr. 24, 2023

    Published Online: May. 22, 2023

    The Author Email: Guo Kunping (kguo@sust.edu.cn), Zhang Fanghui (zhangfanghui@sust.edu.cn), Wei Bin (bwei@shu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1117/1.APN.2.4.044001

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