Improved designs for p-i-n OLEDs towards the minimal power loss of devices

Dashan Qin

doi:10.1117/12.2051210

1 May 2014 Improved designs for p-i-n OLEDs towards the minimal power loss of devices

Dashan Qin

Proceedings Volume 9137, Organic Photonics VI; 91370K (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051210
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Currently, the low yield, high power loss, and poor stability of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) panels are remaining as the obstacles to the fast growth of the OLED industry, especially for the lighting application. The p-i-n OLEDs have been widely recognized as the promising method to circumvent these bottleneck factors, due to the unique merit of the electrical doping to enable low power loss. In p-i-n OLEDs, the frequently used n-doped electron transport layers (n-ETL1) such as n-BCP, n-Alq₃ possess markedly lower conductivities but better capabilities of injecting electrons into ETL such as BCP, Alq₃, as compared to another class of n-doped ETLs (n-ETL₂), e.g., n-NTCDA, n-PTCDA, n-C₆₀. Thus, in order to minimize the electron loss, we provide the structure of uniting two n-doped layers, cathode/ n-ETL₂/ n-ETL₁/ ETL. In p-i-n OLEDs, the hole current injected from the single p-doped hole transport layer (p-HTL) into the neat HTL must be limited, because the higher conductivity p-HTL has the higher lying highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level, leading to a larger hole transport energy barrier (φB) at the interface with the neat HTL. Therefore, in order to minimize the hole loss, we suggest the structure of uniting two p-HTLs, anode/ p-HTL2/ p-HTL₁/ HTL. The p-HTL₂ possesses high-lying HOMO level and thereby high conductivity, decreasing the ohmic loss in the hole conduction; the p-HTL₁ features a low-lying HOMO level, reducing the φB.

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Dashan Qin "Improved designs for p-i-n OLEDs towards the minimal power loss of devices", Proc. SPIE 9137, Organic Photonics VI, 91370K (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051210

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Organic light emitting diodes

Electron transport

Interfaces

Thin films

Heterojunctions

Absorption

Doping

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