Light extraction from surface plasmon polaritons and substrate/waveguide modes in organic light-emitting devices with silver-nanomesh electrodes
Autor: | Sung Min Cho, Chanho Kim, Hyekyung Choi, Heeyeop Chae, Minji Hwang |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Materials science business.industry 02 engineering and technology Substrate (electronics) 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Surface plasmon polariton Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Light scattering chemistry.chemical_compound Optics Nanomesh chemistry 0103 physical sciences Electrode OLED Optoelectronics Quantum efficiency 0210 nano-technology business Diode |
Zdroj: | OPTICS EXPRESS(24): 26 |
ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
Popis: | Light out-coupling of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with silver (Ag)-nanomesh electrodes was examined. Experimental results for the OLEDs with nine different nanomesh dimensions were compared with simulation results to elucidate the dimensional effect of the nanomesh on the light out-coupling behavior of the devices. The Ag-nanomesh electrodes did not only increase the transparency of the Ag electrode due to periodic nanoholes but also enhanced light extraction from surface plasmon polaritons and substrate/waveguide modes in the devices. The simulation results show similar trends with the experimental results for the optical transmittance, emission spectrum, and efficiency enhancement. With a nanomesh dimension of 480 nm period and 50% fill factor, the OLEDs with the Ag-nanomesh electrode showed 1.66 times higher efficiency than those with a planar Ag electrode did. Using our validated simulation, we construct an external quantum efficiency map in full ranges of the period and fill factor of the Ag-nanomesh electrode to find out the optimum nanomesh dimension. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America |
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