Intrinsically stretchable and transparent thin-film transistors based on printable silver nanowires, carbon nanotubes and an elastomeric dielectric.

Thin-film field-effect transistor is a fundamental component behind various mordern electronics. The development of stretchable electronics poses fundamental challenges in developing new electronic materials for stretchable thin-film transistors that are mechanically compliant and solution processable. Here we report the fabrication of transparent thin-film transistors that behave like an elastomer film. The entire fabrication is carried out by solution-based techniques, and the resulting devices exhibit a mobility of ∼30 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), on/off ratio of 10(3)-10(4), switching current >100 μA, transconductance >50 μS and relative low operating voltages. The devices can be stretched by up to 50% strain and subjected to 500 cycles of repeated stretching to 20% strain without significant loss in electrical property. The thin-film transistors are also used to drive organic light-emitting diodes. The approach and results represent an important progress toward the development of stretchable active-matrix displays

High-Contrast OLEDs with High-Efficiency

Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

The theoretical study of passive and active optical devices via planewave based transfer (scattering) matrix method and other approaches

In this thesis, we theoretically study the electromagnetic wave propagation in several passive and active optical components and devices including 2-D photonic crystals, straight and curved waveguides, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and etc. Several optical designs are also presented like organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and solar concentrators. The first part of the thesis focuses on theoretical investigation. First, the plane-wave-based transfer (scattering) matrix method (TMM) is briefly described with a short review of photonic crystals and other numerical methods to study them (Chapter 1 and 2). Next TMM, the numerical method itself is investigated in details and developed in advance to deal with more complex optical systems. In chapter 3, TMM is extended in curvilinear coordinates to study curved nanoribbon waveguides. The problem of a curved structure is transformed into an equivalent one of a straight structure with spatially dependent tensors of dielectric constant and magnetic permeability. In chapter 4, a new set of localized basis orbitals are introduced to locally represent electromagnetic field in photonic crystals as alternative to planewave basis. The second part of the thesis focuses on the design of optical devices. First, two examples of TMM applications are given. The first example is the design of metal grating structures as replacements of ITO to enhance the optical absorption in OPV cells (chapter 6). The second one is the design of the same structure as above to enhance the light extraction of OLEDs (chapter 7). Next, two design examples by ray tracing method are given, including applying a microlens array to enhance the light extraction of OLEDs (chapter 5) and an all-angle wide-wavelength design of solar concentrator (chapter 8). In summary, this dissertation has extended TMM which makes it capable of treating complex optical systems. Several optical designs by TMM and ray tracing method are also given as a full complement of this work

Optical Simulation and Optimization of Light Extraction Efficiency for Organic Light Emitting Diodes

abstract: Current organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) suffer from the low light extraction efficiency. In this thesis, novel OLED structures including photonic crystal, Fabry-Perot resonance cavity and hyperbolic metamaterials were numerically simulated and theoretically investigated. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method was employed to numerically simulate the light extraction efficiency of various 3D OLED structures. With photonic crystal structures, a maximum of 30% extraction efficiency is achieved. A higher external quantum efficiency of 35% is derived after applying Fabry-Perot resonance cavity into OLEDs. Furthermore, different factors such as material properties, layer thicknesses and dipole polarizations and locations have been studied. Moreover, an upper limit for the light extraction efficiency of 80% is reached theoretically with perfect reflector and single dipole polarization and location. To elucidate the physical mechanism, transfer matrix method is introduced to calculate the spectral-hemispherical reflectance of the multilayer OLED structures. In addition, an attempt of using hyperbolic metamaterial in OLED has been made and resulted in 27% external quantum efficiency, due to the similar mechanism of wave interference as Fabry-Perot structure. The simulation and optimization methods and findings would facilitate the design of next generation, high-efficiency OLED devices.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Mechanical Engineering 201

Plant-derived cis-β-ocimene as a precursor for biocompatible, transparent, thermally-stable dielectric and encapsulating layers for organic electronics

This article presents low-temperature, one-step dry synthesis of optically transparent thermally-stable, biocompatible cis-β-ocimene-based thin films for applications as interlayer dielectric and encapsulating layer for flexible electronic devices, e.g. OLEDs. Morphological analysis of thin films shows uniform, very smooth (R q < 1 nm) and defect-free moderately hydrophilic surfaces. The films are optically transparent, with a refractive index of ∼1.58 at 600 nm, an optical band gap of ∼2.85 eV, and dielectric constant of 3.5-3.6 at 1 kHz. Upon heating, thin films are chemically and optically stable up to at least 200 °C, where thermal stability increases for films manufactured at higher RF power as well as for films deposited away from the plasma glow. Heating of the sample increases the dielectric constant, from 3.7 (25 °C) to 4.7 (120 °C) at 1 kHz for polymer fabricated at 25 W. Polymers are biocompatible with non-adherent THP-1 cells and adherent mouse macrophage cells, including LPS-stimulated macrophages, and maintain their material properties after 48 h of immersion into simulated body fluid. The versatile nature of the films fabricated in this study may be exploited in next-generation consumer electronics and energy technologies

Photon Generation and Dissipation in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

By using phosphorescent and thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, the internal quantum efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can now reach 100%. However, a major fraction of generated photons is trapped inside the device, because of the intrinsic multi-layer device structure and the mismatch of refractive indices. This thesis comprises different approaches for the efficiency enhancement of planar OLEDs. In particular, outcoupling strategies to extract trapped photons to obtain highly efficient OLEDs are investigated

유기 발광 소자에 대한 임피던스 분광 분석 방법에 대한 연구

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 전기·정보공학부, 2019. 2. 홍용택.In this dissertation, the method of analyzing the characteristics of organic light-emitting diodes using impedance spectroscopy was studied. Generally, the organic light-emitting device has a structure in which organic materials necessary for light emission are thinly laminated between a TCO (Transparent Conductive Oxide) and a metal electrode. Due to chemical vulnerability of organic materials as well as the complexity with their hetero-junction, it is necessary to investigate the characteristics of fabricated an organic light-emitting diodes in a non-destructive manner rather than destructive manner. Classically, a method of measuring a current-voltage curve using a current-voltage meter and measuring a luminescence using luminance meter is used to evaluate the characteristics of the OLEDs. However, in order to investigate details at intrinsic interface state or carrier dynamics of OLEDs, it is require measuring the impedance response under operating condition. Impedance spectroscopy (IS) covers all impedance responses in the frequency range from milli hertz to megahertz, while focusing primarily on capacitance in solid-state electronics. This makes it possible to construct a high-resolution equivalent circuit and analyze each measured impedance. Each impedance is measured by applying ac small signal after determining the dc operating voltage. The dc operating voltage and ac small signal should be strategically chosen to describe the behavior of the device. In Chapter 1, an overview of the Impedance Spectroscopy Analysis is introduced and the background of the impedance measurement method is explained. Then the motivation for applying this impedance analysis method to OLEDs is explained and the methods of analyzing the characteristics of OLEDs through impedance spectroscopy are discussed. Chapter 2 reviews previously reported papers about impedance analysis methods of OLEDs and explains the limitations of these papers. In particular, the contributions of the diffusion capacitance that they underestimate are very important to prevent errors when characterizing of OLEDs. To explained diffusion capacitance the Laux & Hess model is applied. This model can explain the impedance response to the residual current and even demonstrate the negative capacitance phenomenon. The analytical results using the Laux & Hess model[1] were verified to describe the characteristics of the OLEDs during operation and an approximate and fitting process for the analytical method of this model is proposed. In Chapter 3, ITO/a-NPD[N,N′-Bis(naphthalen-1-yl)-N,N′-bis(phenyl)-2,2′-dimethylbenzidine]/Alq3[Tris-(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum]/LiF/Al type OLEDs were fabricated and investigated using the improved impedance analysis method proposed in Chapter 2. First, according to the structural (thickness) change, the physical analysis was performed quantitatively by changing the impedance response. The measured impedance at high frequencies represents the interface and buck characteristics in the OLEDs, and the impedance at low frequencies explains the dynamics of carriers in the OLEDs. In addition, the impedance changes due to OLEDs degradation are analyzed. Using the proposed Impedance Spectroscopy Analysis method in this paper, the origin of degradation can be accurately and effectively separated from the state change of the interface and the buck. The results strengthen the existing interpretation of the interface trap effect of HTL/EML and showed that it can be traced with the rate of change of the extracted impedance value. Chapter 4 briefly introduces the program tool for analyzing the OLEDs used in this paper, and attached an appendix for derived the formula. And I will discuss the possibility of applying this Impedance Spectroscopy Analysis to mass products industry in the future.본 논문은 임피던스 분광법을 이용한 유기 발광 다이오드의 특성 분석 방법에 대한 연구이다. 일반적으로 유기 발광 소자는 TCO (Transparent Conductive Oxide)와 금속 전극 사이에 발광에 필요한 유기 물질이 얇게 적층 된 구조를 갖는다. 유기 물질의 화학적 취약성과 헤테로 접합의 복잡성으로 인해 파괴적인 방식 보다는 비파괴 방식으로 제조된 유기 발광 다이오드의 특성을 조사해야 한다. 고전적으로, 전류-전압계를 사용하여 전류-전압 곡선을 측정하고 휘도 계를 사용하여 발광을 측정하는 방법이 OLEDs의 특성을 평가하는데 사용된다. 그러나 OLEDs의 인터페이스 상태 또는 캐리어 동역학에 대한 세부 사항을 조사하기 위해서는 작동 조건 하에서의 임피던스 응답을 측정해야 한다 일반적인 고체 물리에서의 임피던스 분석 방법은 커패시턴스에 주로 초점을 맞추고 있는 반면에, 임피던스 분광법 (IS)은 miliherz 에서 megaherz의 주파수 범위에서 모든 임피던스 응답을 다루는 것이 특징이다. 이를 통해 분해능이 높은 등가 회로를 구성하고 각각 측정 된 임피던스를 면밀히 분석 할 수 있다. 각 임피던스는 작동 직류 전압을 결정한 후 교류 소신호를 인가하여 측정되는데, 이 작동 직류 전압과 교류 소신호는 소자의 동작을 적절히 설명하기 위해 전략적으로 선택되어야 한다. 제 1 장에서는 임피던스 분광 분석의 개요를 소개하고 임피던스 측정 방법의 배경을 설명한다. 그리고 임피던스 분석 방법을 OLEDs에 적용하려는 동기에 대해서 설명하고 임피던스 분광학을 통해 OLEDs의 특성을 분석하는 다양한 방법들이 논의된다. 제 2 장은 OLEDs의 임피던스 분석 방법에 대해 이전에 보고된 논문을 검토하고 이들 논문의 한계를 설명한다. 특히, 이전에 과소평가된 확산 캐패시턴스의 기여는 OLEDs의 특성을 결정할 때 오류를 방지하는 데 매우 중요하다는 것을 보여줄 것이다. 이러한 확산 용량을 설명하기 위해 Laux & Hess 모델이 적용되었다. 이 모델은 잔류 전류에 대한 임피던스 응답을 매우 잘 설명 할 수 있고 심지어 음의 커패시턴스 현상도 잘 설명해 준다. Laux & Hess 모델을 사용한 분석 결과는 작동 중의 OLEDs의 특성을 잘 묘사 하고 있음을 보였고 이 모델의 분석 방법을 위한 근사 프로세스를 제안하였다. 제 3 장에서는 ITO/a-NPD[N,N′-Bis(naphthalen-1-yl)-N,N′-bis(phenyl)-2,2′-dimethylbenzidine]/Alq3[Tris-(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum]/LiF/Al 형 OLED를 제작하여 제 2 장에서 제안된 개선된 임피던스 분석법을 사용하여 조사하였다. 먼저, 구조적(두께) 변화에 따른 임피던스 응답의 변화를 측정하여 물리적, 정량적 해석이 수행되었다. 높은 주파수에서 측정된 임피던스는 OLEDs의 인터페이스 및 버크 특성을 나타내며 저주파수에서의 임피던스는 OLEDs의 캐리어의 동적 이동을 설명한다. 또한 OLEDs의 열화로 인한 임피던스 변화를 분석하였다. 본 논문에서 제안 된 Impedance Spectroscopy Analysis 방법을 사용하면, 열화의 원인으로서 계면과 버크의 상태 변화가 정확하고 효과적으로 분리 될 수 있다. 결과는 HTL/EML의 인터페이스 트랩 효과에 대한 기존 해석을 강화하는 것으로 나왔고 추출된 임피던스 값의 변화율을 추적 할 수 있음을 보여 주었다. 4 장 에서는 이 논문에서 사용된 OLEDs를 분석하기 위한 프로그램 도구를 간략하게 소개하고 수식에 대한 부록을 첨부 했다. 그리고 향후 이 임피던스 분광학 분석을 산업에 적용 시킬 가능성에 대해 논의하고 요약하도록 하겠다.Abstract i Contents v List of Figures viii List of Tables xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.1.1 History of Organic Light Emitting Diodes 6 1.1.2 OLEDs Hetero Structures 8 1.1.3 OLEDs life time 11 1.2 Materials 15 1.2.1 Alq3 16 1.2.2 HAT-CN 17 1.2.3 α-NPB 18 1.2.4 DCM 19 1.3 Equipment & Instrument 20 1.3.1 Thermal Evaporator 20 1.3.2 Impedance Measurement Equipment for OLEDs 23 Chapter 2 Analytic Theory of OLED Impedance Spectroscopy 26 2.1 Problems of Previous Reported Impedance Spectroscopy to extract parameter on OLEDs 28 2.2 Complex Capacitance Concepts for IS 31 2.2.1 ARC 31 2.2.2 ZARC 34 2.2.3 Negative Capacitance 38 2.2.4 Equivalent circuit strategy for OLEDs 43 2.3 Theory 45 2.3.1 Impedance Spectroscopy 45 2.3.2 Small-Signal Model 49 2.3.3 Complex Plane Diagram 51 2.3.4 Equivalent Circuit Modeling 54 2.3.5 Superposition of various Impedance Component 58 2.3.6 Debye relaxation plot( -plot) 60 2.4 How to extract reasonable parameter from impedance spectroscopy 64 Chapter 3 Experiments 71 3.1 Thickness modification OLEDs 72 3.1.1 Analysis of the Interface of the OLEDs 76 3.1.2 Analysis of the Carrier Distribution of OLEDs 78 3.2 Thickness ratio modification 80 3.2.1 Relation between efficiency and M-plot 82 3.3 DCM doping ration Modification 84 3.3.1 Correlation between Current-Voltage-Efficiency and Impedance Response 84 Chapter 4 Discussion 90 4.1 Consideration of Effects of Interface Properties 90 4.2 Consideration of Effects of Bulk properties 92 4.3 Negative Capacitance relation with efficiency analysis 93 4.4 Mobility Measurement Using Impedance analysis 96 Chapter 5 Conclusion 101 Appendix 109 Bibliography 116 Publications 122 초 록 127Docto

High Efficiency and Wide Color Gamut Liquid Crystal Displays

Liquid crystal display (LCD) has become ubiquitous and indispensable in our daily life. Recently, it faces strong competition from organic light emitting diode (OLED). In order to maintain a strong leader position, LCD camp has an urgent need to enrich the color performance and reduce the power consumption. This dissertation focuses on solving these two emerging and important challenges. In the first part of the dissertation we investigate the quantum dot (QD) technology to improve the both the color gamut and the light efficiency of LCD. QD emits saturated color and grants LCD the capability to reproduce color vivid images. Moreover, the QD emission spectrum can be custom designed to match to transmission band of color filters. To fully take advantage of QD\u27s unique features, we propose a systematic modelling of the LCD backlight and optimize the QD spectrum to simultaneously maximize the color gamut and light efficiency. Moreover, QD enhanced LCD demonstrates several advantages: excellent ambient contrast, negligible color shift and controllable white point. Besides three primary LCD, We also present a spatiotemporal four-primary QD enhanced LCD. The LCD\u27s color is generated partially from time domain and partially from spatial domain. As a result, this LCD mode offers 1.5× increment in spatial resolution, 2× brightness enhancement, slightly larger color gamut and mitigated LC response requirement (~4ms). It can be employed in the commercial TV to meet the challenging Energy star 6 regulation. Besides conventional LCD, we also extend the QD applications to liquid displays and smart lighting devices. The second part of this dissertation focuses on improving the LCD light efficiency. Conventional LCD system has fairly low light efficiency (4%~7%) since polarizers and color filters absorb 50% and 67% of the incoming light respectively. We propose two approaches to reduce the light loss within polarizers and color filters. The first method is a polarization preserving backlight system. It can be combined with linearly polarized light source to boost the LCD efficiency. Moreover, this polarization preserving backlight offers high polarization efficiency (~77.8%), 2.4× on-axis luminance enhancement, and no need for extra optics films. The second approach is a LCD backlight system with simultaneous color/polarization recycling. We design a novel polarizing color filter with high transmittance ( \u3e 90%), low absorption loss (~3.3%), high extinction ratio (\u3e10,000:1) and large angular tolerance (up to ±50˚). This polarizing color filter can be used in LCD system to introduce the color/polarization recycling and accordingly boost LCD efficiency by ~3 times. These two approaches open new gateway for ultra-low power LCDs. In the final session of this dissertation, we demonstrate a low power and color vivid reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display with low viscosity liquid crystal mixture. Compared with commercial LC material, the new LC mixture offers ~4X faster response at 20oC and ~8X faster response at -20°C. This fast response LC material enables the field-sequential-color (FSC) driving for power saving. It also leads to several attractive advantages: submillisecond response time at room temperature, vivid color even at -20oC, high brightness, excellent ambient contrast ratio, and suppressed color breakup. With this material improvement, LCOS display can be promising for the emerging wearable display market

Physical And Electrical Study Of Aloe Vera Dielectric Layer

Commercially available Aloe vera gel and naturally extracted Aloe vera gel were compared and used as dielectric material in organic electronic device. Commercial Aloe vera and extracted natural Aloe vera layers were formed respectively on aluminum coated glass substrate by screen-printing. Both types of Aloe vera layers were dried at room temperature for 24 hours and followed by oven drying in air. The effects of oven drying temperature (30-80oC) and duration (30-60 min), number of stacking Aloe vera layers and distance in between two metal electrodes on commercial Aloe vera layer were studied. The effects of oven drying temperature (30-90oC) and duration (30-180 min) as well as loading of silicon dioxide nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) on extracted natural Aloe vera layer were investigated. Structural, physical and electrical properties of the commercial and extracted natural Aloe vera samples were examined and compared. Atomic force microscope, scanning electron microscope, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscope were used to identify the differences between those two types of Aloe vera layers that had been dried at different conditions. It was aimed to understand the cross-linking of polysaccharides in the materials as it is an important consideration for electrical application. It found that single layer of oven dried (40°C for 30 min) commercial Aloe vera demonstrated the lowest leakage current density (J) and the J value was not affected by the distance between two metal electrodes. This revealed the electrical uniformity of the dielectric layer