High-efficiency fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes using double hole-transporting-layers

Jwo-Huei Jou; Shih-Ming Shen; Cheng-Chung Chen; Yu-Chiao Chung; Chun-Jan Wang; Mao-Feng Hsu; Wei-Ben Wang; Ming-Hsuan Wu; Chih-Jie Yang; Chi-Ping Liu

doi:10.1117/12.779509

16 April 2008 High-efficiency fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes using double hole-transporting-layers

Jwo-Huei Jou, Shih-Ming Shen, Cheng-Chung Chen, Yu-Chiao Chung, Chun-Jan Wang, Mao-Feng Hsu, Wei-Ben Wang, Ming-Hsuan Wu, Chih-Jie Yang, Chi-Ping Liu

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Proceedings Volume 6999, Organic Optoelectronics and Photonics III; 69992S (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.779509
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2008, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

High-efficiency fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) were fabricated by using double holetransporting- layers (HTLs), poly(3,4-ethylene- dioxythiophene)-poly-(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT) and N,N'-bis-(1- naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenyl-1,10-biphenyl-4-4'-diamine (NPB). The diodes were composed of a single emissive-layer (EML), with 0.5 wt% red 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-tbutyl-6-(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran doped in a mixed-host of 25% trans-1,2-bis(6-(N,N-di-p-tolylamino)-Naphthalene-2-yl)ethene and 75% 1-butyl-9,10-naphthaleneanthracene. The device structure comprised a 125 nm anode layer of indium tin oxide, a 25 nm first HTL of PEDOT, a 0 to 10 nm second HTL of NPB, a 30 nm EML, a 40 nm electron-transporting-layer of 2,2',2"-(1,3,5-benzenetriyl)-tris(1- phenyl-1-H-benzimidazole), a 1 nm electron-injection-layer of lithium fluoride and a 150 nm cathode layer of aluminum. With the addition of a 7.5 nm second HTL (NPB), the resultant power-efficiency at 100 cd/m², for example, was increased from 11.9 to 18.9 lm/W, an improvement of 59%. The improvement was even more marked at 1,000 cd/m², i.e. that the power-efficiency was increased from 9.1 to 16.5 lm/W, an improvement of 81%. The marked efficiency improvement may be attributed to a better balance of carrier-injection in the desired emissive zone since the addition of the NPB layer in between the first HTL and the EML may have effectively reduced the injection of excessive holes into the EML due to the relatively high energy-barrier to hole, which was 0.5 eV, at the interface of the two HTLs. The resultant hole-blocking function was plausibly more effective at higher voltage so that comparatively much less holes would be injected into the EML, leading to a much better balanced carrier-injection and consequently a higher efficiency-improvement at the higher brightness.

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Jwo-Huei Jou, Shih-Ming Shen, Cheng-Chung Chen, Yu-Chiao Chung, Chun-Jan Wang, Mao-Feng Hsu, Wei-Ben Wang, Ming-Hsuan Wu, Chih-Jie Yang, and Chi-Ping Liu "High-efficiency fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes using double hole-transporting-layers", Proc. SPIE 6999, Organic Optoelectronics and Photonics III, 69992S (16 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.779509

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