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Color-tunable OLEDs pixel arrays with vertically stacked blue, green, and red colors (panel size: 90 mm x 85 mm)
Improved Efficiency of Inverted Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using Tin Dioxide Nanoparticles as an Electron Injection Layer
We demonstrated highly efficient
inverted bottom-emission organic light-emitting diodes (IBOLEDs) using
tin dioxide (SnO<sub>2</sub>) nanoparticles (NPs) as an electron injection
layer at the interface between the indium tin oxide (ITO) cathode
and the organic electron transport layer. The SnO<sub>2</sub> NP layer
can facilitate the electron injection since the conduction band energy
level of SnO<sub>2</sub> NPs (−3.6 eV) is located between the
work function of ITO (4.8 eV) and the lowest unoccupied molecular
orbital (LUMO) energy level of typical electron transporting molecules
(−2.5 to −3.5 eV). As a result, the IBOLEDs with the
SnO<sub>2</sub> NPs exhibited a decrease of the driving voltage by
7 V at 1000 cd/m<sup>2</sup> compared to the device without SnO<sub>2</sub> NPs. They also showed a significantly enhanced luminous current
efficiency of 51.1 cd/A (corresponds to the external quantum efficiency
of 15.6%) at the same brightness, which is about two times higher
values than that of the device without SnO<sub>2</sub> NPs. We also
measured the angular dependence of irradiance and electroluminescence
(EL) spectra in the devices with SnO<sub>2</sub> NPs and found that
they had a nearly Lambertian emission profile and few shift in EL
spectrum through the entire viewing angles, which are considered as
remarkable and essential results for the application of OLEDs to display
devices
Unraveled Face-Dependent Effects of Multilayered Graphene Embedded in Transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
With increasing demand
for transparent conducting electrodes, graphene has attracted considerable
attention, owing to its high electrical conductivity, high transmittance,
low reflectance, flexibility, and tunable work function. Two faces
of single-layer graphene are indistinguishable in its nature, and
this idea has not been doubted even in multilayered graphene (MLG)
because it is difficult to separately characterize the front (first-born)
and the rear face (last-born) of MLG by using conventional analysis
tools, such as Raman and ultraviolet spectroscopy, scanning probe
microscopy, and sheet resistance. In this paper, we report the striking
difference of the emission pattern and performance of transparent
organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) depending on the adopted face
of MLG and show the resolved chemical and physical states of both
faces by using depth-selected absorption spectroscopy. Our results
strongly support that the interface property between two different
materials rules over the bulk property in the driving performance
of OLEDs
Efficient Large-Area Transparent OLEDs Based on a Laminated Top Electrode with an Embedded Auxiliary Mesh
To
realize transparent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), a
top electrode should have excellent optical, electrical, and mechanical
properties. Conventionally, transparent conductive oxides and semitransparent
metal have been widely used for transparent top electrodes, but they
have several fundamental drawbacks. We herein report efficient large-area
inverted transparent OLEDs using a vacuum-laminated top electrode
with an embedded metal mesh. The laminated device with 1 mm pitch
exhibits superior optical properties including a high transmittance
of 75.9% at 550 nm, a low reflectance of 12.0% at 550 nm, and spectrally
flat characteristics over the entire visible region and shows nearly
ideal Lambertian angular emission characteristics with little angular
color shift in both directions. Moreover, the lowered sheet resistance
of 4 Ω/sq originating from the embedded metal mesh (1 mm pitch)
led to efficient and uniform emission characteristics. As a result,
the device shows a relatively high maximum current efficiency of 50.3
cd/A (bottom: 24.5 cd/A; top: 25.8 cd/A) and a maximum external quantum
efficiency of 15.3% (bottom: 7.9%; top: 7.4%), which surpasses all
previously reported values based on a laminated top electrode. In
addition, we successfully demonstrate its potential as a large-area
transparent top electrode in various optoelectronic devices through
a large-area transparent OLED segment panel (45 × 90 mm<sup>2</sup>, diagonal length of 70.2 mm in the active area) with a laminated
top electrode
Data File 1: Stable angular emission spectra in white organic light-emitting diodes using graphene/PEDOT:PSS composite electrode
the CIE x- and y-coordinates at different angles (0-70°) Originally published in Optics Express on 01 May 2017 (oe-25-9-9734
Conductivity Enhancement of Nickel Oxide by Copper Cation Codoping for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Light-Emitting Diodes
We
demonstrate a CuÂ(I) and CuÂ(II) codoped nickelÂ(II) oxide (NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub>) hole injection layer (HIL) for solution-processed
hybrid organic-inorganic light-emitting diodes (HyLEDs). Codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> films show no degradation on optical properties
in the visible range (400–700 nm) but have enhanced electrical
properties compared to those of conventional CuÂ(II)-only doped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> film. Codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> film shows an over four times increased vertical current in
comparison with that of NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> in conductive
atomic force microscopy (c-AFM) configuration. Moreover, the hole
injection ability of codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> is also
improved, which has ionization energy of 5.45 eV, 0.14 eV higher than
the value of NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> film. These improvements
are a consequence of surface chemical composition change in NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> due to Cu cation codoping. More off-stoichiometric
NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> formed by codoping includes a large
amount of Ni vacancies, which lead to better electrical properties.
Density functional theory calculations also show that Cu doped NiO
model structure with Ni vacancy contains diverse oxidation states
of Ni based on both density of states and partial atomic charge analysis.
Finally, HyLEDs of Cu codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> HIL
have higher performance comparing with those of pristine NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub>. The current efficiency of devices with NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> and codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> HIL are 11.2 and 15.4 cd/A, respectively. Therefore, codoped NiO<sub><i>x</i></sub> is applicable to various optoelectronic
devices due to simple sol–gel process and enhanced doping efficiency