Effects of additives in polymer thick film-organic light emitting diodes (PTF-OLED)

Louis M L LEUNG; C. F. Kwong; Shu Kong SO

doi:10.1016/S0141-9382(02)00035-5

Effects of additives in polymer thick film-organic light emitting diodes (PTF-OLED)

Louis M L LEUNG^*, C. F. Kwong, Shu Kong SO

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The optimum composition and film thickness determined for a single-layer organic light emitting diodes (120-150cd/m² at 30mA/cm²) has been determined in one of our previous publication [Display 21 (2001) 199]. In this following study, a series of additives was included in the original composition for the purposes of color tuning, enhancement of the device efficiency as well as the stability of the polymer thick film-organic light emitting diodes (PTF-OLED). The additives attempted including three dyes (rubrene, perylene and DCM), three sensitizers (naphthalene, anthracene and p-terphenyl), several stabilizers (antioxidant and photo-stabilizer) and a number of organic soluble salts known as phase transfer catalyst. Rubrene was found being able to improve the OLED efficiency by 3-fold and its durability by at least 60 times at a concentration of 5-10pph (in part per hundred of Alq₃ replaced). The color of the OLED can also be tuned according to the additional dye used. The sensitizer naphtahlene can also improved the efficiency of the OLED by 2-fold while the effect of the other additives was less significant. In addition, the lowering of the turn-on voltage and thus a higher current efficiency resulted by the addition of a charge injection layer (lithium fluoride or calcium fluoride) in between the cathode and the organic layer. The performance of the doped PTF-OLED is within an order of magnitude compared to a heterojunction small molecule-based OLED.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-175
Number of pages	5
Journal	Displays
Volume	23
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0141-9382(02)00035-5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2002

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