Thermal buffer materials for enhancement of device performance of organic light emitting diodes fabricated by laser imaging process

Autor: Ji-Hoon Lee, Seung Ji Cha, Joon Ho Jeon, Young Min Jeon, Min Chul Suh
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Organic Electronics. 15:2802-2809
ISSN: 1566-1199
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.08.009
Popis: Laser Induced Thermal Imaging (LITI) is a laser addressed thermal patterning technology with unique advantages such as an excellent uniformity of transfer film thickness, a capability of multilayer stack transfer and a possibility to fabricate high resolution as well as large-area display. Nevertheless, it has been an obstacle to use such a laser imaging process as a commercial technology so far because of serious deterioration of the device performances plausibly due to a re-orientation of the molecular stacking especially in the emitting layer during thermal transfer process. To improve device performances, we devised a new concept to suppress the thermal degradation during such kind of thermal imaging process by using a high molecular weight small molecular species with large steric hindrance as well as high thermostability as a thermal buffer layer to realize highly efficient LITI devices. As a result, we obtained very high relative efficiency (by EQE) up to 91.5% at 1000 cd/m 2 from the LITI devices when we utilize 10-(naphthalene-2-yl)-3-(phenanthren-9-yl)spiro[benzo[ij]tetraphene-7,9′-fluorene] as a thermal buffer material.
Databáze: OpenAIRE