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Development of a highly efficient, strongly coupled organic light-emitting diode based on intracavity pumping architecture
- Source :
- Optics express. 28(26)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We report a highly efficient polariton organic light-emitting diode (POLED) based on an intracavity pumping architecture, where an absorbing J-aggregate dye film is used to generate polariton modes and a red fluorescent OLED is used for radiative pumping of emission from the lower polariton (LP) branch. To realize the device with large-area uniformity and adjustable coupling strength, we develop a spin-coating method to achieve high-quality J-aggregate thin films with controlled thickness and absorption. From systematic studies of the devices with different J-aggregate film thicknesses and OLED injection layers, we show that the J-aggregate film and the pump OLED play separate roles in determining the coupling strength and electroluminescence efficiency, and can be simultaneously optimized under a cavity design with a good LP-OLED emission overlap for effective radiative pumping. By increasing the absorption with thick J-aggregate film and improving the electron injection of pump OLED with Li2CO3 interlayer, we demonstrate the POLED with a large Rabi splitting energy of 192 meV and a maximum external quantum efficiency of 1.2%, a record efficiency of POLEDs reported so far. This POLED architecture can be generally applied for exploration of various organic materials to realize novel polariton devices and electrically pumped lasers.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
business.industry
02 engineering and technology
Electroluminescence
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Laser
01 natural sciences
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
law.invention
010309 optics
Optics
law
0103 physical sciences
OLED
Polariton
Quantum efficiency
Thin film
0210 nano-technology
business
Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
Diode
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10944087
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optics express
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....525f3c7aabc1ae5e2c8f4ab6f0ad2f87