Oxidized Gold Thin Films: An Effective Material for High‐Performance Flexible Organic Optoelectronics

Oxidized Au thin film is shown to function as a direct drop-in replacement for the de facto standard indium tin oxide anode in high-performance flexible organic light-emitting diodes fabricated on plastic substrates (see image). The thin films offer a new materials-technology platform for enabling the roll-to-roll processing of next-generation flexible organic optoelectronics for applications such as solid-state lighting. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.