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Efficiency improvement in solution-processed multilayered phosphorescent white organic light emitting diodes by silica coated silver nanocubes

Zhang Ya-Nan Zhan Nan Deng Ling-Ling Chen Shu-Fen

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Efficiency improvement in solution-processed multilayered phosphorescent white organic light emitting diodes by silica coated silver nanocubes

Zhang Ya-Nan, Zhan Nan, Deng Ling-Ling, Chen Shu-Fen
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  • Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect of metal nanoparticles (MNs) has been widely applied in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to improve the radiation of excitons. The LSPR wavelength and intensity of MNs and the coupling between MNs and excitons greatly affect the LSPR effect on exciton radiation. In this work, silica coated silver nanocubes (Ag@SiO2 NCs) were doped in the electron transport layer (ETL) of a solution-processed multilayered white OLED (WOLED). Due to the sharp edges and corners, Ag NCs have strong LSPR effect and can effectively enhance the radiation of nearby excitons. With an appropriate concentration of Ag@SiO2 NCs, the WOLED achieved two fold improvement in the current efficiency comparing with the control device without Ag@SiO2 NCs incorporated. The working mechanism of the Ag@SiO2 NCs based WOLED was investigated in detail. For the solution-processed OLED, excitons usually form and recombine near the interface of emission layer and electron transport layer (EML/ETL) because the commonly used host material (such as polyvinylcarbazole, PVK) has the unipolar hole transport property. So the Ag@SiO2 NCs in ETL greatly enhanced the radiation of the excitons located near the EML/ETL interface, which mostly contributed to the performance enhancement of the Ag@SiO2 NCs based WOLED. Study on a group of devices with Ag@SiO2 NCs doped in different locations indicated that Ag@SiO2 NCs in ETL showed more effective LSPR effect than those in hole injection layer. Electroluminescence and photoluminescence spectra of the WOLEDs declared that the Ag@SiO2 NCs simultaneously improved the radiation intensities of the blue and yellow excitons and helped the WOLED maintain the good chromaticity stability, which was mainly attributed to the wide LSPR wavelength range (450–650 nm) of the Ag@SiO2 NCs. The SiO2 coating layer of the Ag@SiO2 NCs played the important role in the LSPR enhanced emission. On the one hand, it formed an appropriated distance between the Ag NCs and the extions, helping to generate the strong coupling between them. On the other hand, it suppressed the effect of Ag NCs on charge trapping, keeping the stability of the carrier transport in the device. Our research demonstrate MNs can effectively improve the performance of OLEDs by carefully designing the device structure.
      Corresponding author: Chen Shu-Fen, iamsfchen@njupt.edu.cn
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  • 图 1  电子传输层中掺有Ag@SiO2 NCs的WOLED器件结构示意图

    Figure 1.  Schematic structure of the WOLED with Ag@SiO2 NCs doped in ETL.

    图 2  (a)银纳米立方和(b) Ag@SiO2 NCs的TEM图像; (c) TPBi和掺有Ag@SiO2 NCs的TPBi的吸收光谱, 以及FIrpic和PO-01的PL光谱; (d)掺有Ag@SiO2 NCs的TPBi表面的SEM图像

    Figure 2.  TEM images of (a) Ag NCs and (b) Ag@SiO2 NCs; (c) Absorption spectra of TPBi and TPBi:Ag@SiO2 NCs, and PL spectra of FIrpic and PO-01; (d) SEM image of the surface of ETL doped with Ag@SiO2 NCs.

    图 3  掺有1%, 1.5%, 2% Ag@SiO2 NCs 的WOLED以及基础器件的光电性能 (a)亮度-电压; (b)电流密度-电压; (c)电流效率-亮度; (d)归一化光谱. 图(d)中的插图为掺有1.5%Ag@SiO2 NCs 的WOLED在不同电压下的归一化光谱

    Figure 3.  (a) Luminance-voltage, (b) current density-voltage, (c) efficiency-luminance properties and (d) normalized electroluminescent spectra of the WOLEDs with 1%, 1.5%, 2% Ag@SiO2 NCs and the control device. The inset of Fig. (d) is the normalized electroluminescent spectra of the WOLED with 1.5% Ag@SiO2 NCs at different luminance.

    图 4  (a)未归一化和(b)归一化的PL光谱. 样品结构为: ITO/PEDOT:PSS (45 nm)/EML (50 nm)/ETL (45 nm): Ag@SiO2 NCs, 其中Ag@SiO2 NCs浓度为1%, 1.5% and 2%

    Figure 4.  (a) PL spectra and (b) normalized PL spectra of the samples of ITO/PEDOT:PSS (45 nm)/EML (50 nm)/ETL (45 nm) doped with 1%, 1.5% and 2% Ag@SiO2 NCs and the control sample without NCs.

    图 5  单电子器件的电流密度-电压关系

    Figure 5.  Current density-voltage property of the electron-only devices.

    图 6  在WOLED中不同位置掺入Ag@SiO2 NCs后的器件性能 (a)电流密度-电压关系; (b) 亮度-电压关系; (c)电流效率-亮度关系

    Figure 6.  (a) Current density-voltage, (b) luminance-voltage and (c) current efficiency-luminance properties of the WOLEDs with Ag@SiO2 NCs doped in different layers and the control device without Ag@SiO2 NCs.

    表 1  WOLED器件的光电性能

    Table 1.  Summary of the optoelectrical performances of the WOLEDs.

    WOLEDMax Luminance/cd·m–2Max Current Efficiency/cd·A–1Max Power Efficiency/lm·W–1Current Efficiency Enhancement/%Power Efficiency Enhancement/%
    W/O NCs1009114.7/14.1 a8.5/7.7 a
    1% NCs in ETL1529320.713.340.8 b56.5 b
    1.5% NCs in ETL1942730.0/26.3 a18.3/16.5 a104.1/86.5 a115.3/114.3 a
    2% NCs in ETL1209116.911.115.0 b30.6 b
    1.5% NCs in HIL1654517.611.524.8 c49.4 c
    1.5% NCs in HIL&ETL1187919.217.736.9 c129.9 c
    a 图3中的器件效率或效率增强幅度/图6中的器件效率或效率增强幅度;
    b 相对于图3中基础器件的效率增强幅度;
    c 相对于图6中基础器件的效率增强幅度.
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  • [1]

    Kido J, Kimura M, Nagai K 1995 Science 267 1332Google Scholar

    [2]

    Sasabe H, Takamatsu J, Motoyama T, Watanabe S, Wagenblast G, Langer N, Molt O, Fuchs E, Lennartz C, Kido J 2010 Adv. Mater. 22 5003Google Scholar

    [3]

    Sun Y, Giebink N C, Kanno H, Ma B, Thompson M, Forrest S 2006 Nature 44090 8

    [4]

    Sax S, Mauthner G, Piok T, Pradhan S, Scherf U, List E J W 2007 Org. Electron. 8 791Google Scholar

    [5]

    Lee T, Noh T, Shin H, Kwon O, Park J, Choi B, Kim M, Shin D W, Kim Y 2009 Adv. Funct. Mater. 19 1625Google Scholar

    [6]

    You J, Tseng S, Meng H, Yen F, Lin I, Horng S 2009 Org. Electron. 10 1610Google Scholar

    [7]

    Kim K, Lee J, Park T, Jeon W, Kennedy G, Kwon J 2010 Synth. Met. 160 631Google Scholar

    [8]

    Zhao Q, Zhang W, Fan Z, Li J, Chen X, Luo G, Zhang X 2015 Synth. Met. 204 70Google Scholar

    [9]

    Ho S, Liu S, Chen Y, So F 2015 J. Photon. Energy 5 057611Google Scholar

    [10]

    Yook K, Lee J 2014 Adv. Mater. 26 4218Google Scholar

    [11]

    Noh Y, Lee C, Kim J, Yase K 2003 J. Chem. Phys. 118 2853Google Scholar

    [12]

    Kim D H, Kim T W 2016 Org. Electron. 34 262Google Scholar

    [13]

    Xu Y, Zhou H, Zhang R, Liu Y, Zhang Q, Zhang S, Zhang L, Chen S, Deng L, Qian Y, Wang L, Huang W 2015 AIP Adv. 5 067121Google Scholar

    [14]

    Deng L, Zhou Z, Jia B, Zhou H, Peng L, Shang W, Feng J, Chen S 2018 Org. Electron. 53 346Google Scholar

    [15]

    Kim T, Kang S, Heo J, Cho S, Kim J W, Choe A, Walker B, Shanker R, Ko H, Kim J Y 2019 Adv. Mater. 30 1800659

    [16]

    Chen P, Xiong Z, Wu X, Shao M, Meng Y, Xiong Z H, Guo C 2017 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8 3961Google Scholar

    [17]

    Shi Z, Li Y, Li S, Li X, Wu D, Xu T, Tian Y, Chen Y, Zhang Y, Zhang B, Shan C, Du G 2018 Adv. Funct. Mater. 28 1707031Google Scholar

    [18]

    Cho C, Kang H, Baek S, Kim T, Lee C 2016 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8 911

    [19]

    贾博仑, 邓玲玲, 陈若曦, 张雅男, 房旭民 2017 物理学报 66 237801Google Scholar

    Jia B L, Deng L L, Chen R X, Zhang Y N, Fang X M 2017 Acta Phys. Sin. 66 237801Google Scholar

    [20]

    Siekkinen A, Mclellan J, Chen J, Xia Y 2006 Chem. Phys. Lett. 432 491Google Scholar

    [21]

    Deng L, Yang J, Zhan N, Yu T, Yu H, Chen S 2019 Opt. Lett. 44 983Google Scholar

    [22]

    Kim T, Kang H, Jeong S, Kang D J, Lee C, Lee C H, Seo M K, Lee J Y, Kim B J 2014 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6 16956Google Scholar

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  • Received Date:  09 October 2019
  • Accepted Date:  16 December 2019
  • Published Online:  20 February 2020

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