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Organic light-emitting diodes

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In all likelihood, cheap and bright white organic light-emitting diodes will someday light up our homes. Three-dimensional models can now simulate the dynamics of charges and excitons governing the operation of these light sources and predict their performance with molecular precision.

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Figure 1: Molecular-scale heterogeneities in WOLED structures.

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