The application of the nanostructure aluminum in the blue organic light-emitting devices

Autor: Ya-Dong Liu, Yu-hua Mi, Song Xinchao, Guo Wangjun, Zhou Jihua, Haihao Zhang, Yan Zhao, Jie Zhang, Wu Zhisheng
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Organic Electronics. 57:1-6
ISSN: 1566-1199
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2018.02.029
Popis: A composition of aluminum (Al)/1,4,5,8,9,11-hexaazatriphenylene-hexacarbonitrile (HAT-CN) was adopted on the ITO anode of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). With changing the thickness of this anode nanostructure Al, a whole continuous nanofilm or discontinuous nanoparticles would be formed on the ITO surface which can be used to improve the performance of the blue-emitting device. An optical microcavity would be formed by the whole continuous Al nanofilm at the thickness of 15 nm combined with the cathode Al film, which could narrow the emission spectra and enhance the blue emission intensity from the 4,4′-bis(9-ethyl-3-carbazovinylene)-1,1′-biphenyl (BCzVBi). A deep blue electroluminescent (EL) emission with an EL efficiency of 5.7 cd/A at a current density of 20 mA/cm2 at saturated blue Commission International de l’Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.137, 0.112) was obtained, of which the full width at half-maxmium (FWHM) of 49 nm was narrower 30% than the reference device with the increased EL intensity. And while the formed discontinuous nanoparticles was optimized at the thickness of 3 nm, the surface plasmon (SP) effect of the Al nanoparticles was utilized to increase the EL efficiency up to 7.5 cd/A which was 36% higher than the reference device at a current density of 20 mA/cm2, and along with the slightly changed CIE coordinates of (0.156, 0.210).
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