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This chapter gives overviews of the development of organic semiconductors used as light-emitting sources, the HYPIX project and this thesis.
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Wang, Y. (2014). Introduction. In: Low Threshold Organic Semiconductor Lasers. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01267-4_1
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