More detailed descriptions of these exemplary structures, their construction and performance is provided in the Exemplary Embodiments provided below. However, although examples of specific structures and combinations of materials and layers have been discussed, it should be understood that the various components described herein may be combined and arranged in a variety of device architectures contemplated within the disclosed embodiments.

Some embodiments are directed to methods of depositing NW conductive materials for conductive porous electrodes to enable VPLETs and AMOLEDs generally. Although any suitable method of deposition may be used with the current invention including, for example, additive manufacturing, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chemical vapor deposition (CVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), and plasma enhanced using low cost printing, spin-coating, spray coating methods, in many embodiments, printing, such as aerosol jet printing, may be used to deposit one or more of the layers of the LET and LED devices, including LEP inks as active light emitting materials and NW inks as transparent conductive porous electrodes of VPLETs on substrates. In particular, it has been found that printing methods, such as aerosol, roll to roll, screen and ink jet, for example, may be used to form NW networks, nanoparticles, polymer emitters, ionic gels, and conjugated polyelectrolytes that can be used to improve PLET performance, and to produce NW porous conductive electrode supported polymer light emitting devices.