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It is difficult to enhance the blue or purple luminescence efficiency of organic light-emitting device ( OLED) for practice display applications. In this work, aluminum nano particles (Al-NPs) are inserted into the light-tight TmPyPb electron transporting layer (ETL) of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/TAPC/BCzVBi:BCPO/TmPyPb/Liq/Al OLEDs, in which BCzVBi can emit deep-blue fluorescent light, with the attempts to overcome the above deficiency through the local surface plasmon polariton (LSPP) effect excited in Al-NP at higher resonance frequencies by the luminescence radiations from BCzVBi. The distances of Al-NPs from BCzVBi:BCPO fluorescent layer are chosen as x = 4, 8, 12 nm. The morphologies observed by atom force microscope and scan electron microscope show that the Al film with a thickness of 1 nm, deposited at room temperature by vacuum heat evaporate, is composed of separated Al grains (therefore, called Al-NPs) with sizes on a 10 nm scale. By inserting these Al-NPs into the TmPyPb ETL, both the current density and luminance at the same voltage decrease in comparison with the counterparts of reference devices (i.e. ones without Al-NPs) due to the worsened carrier mobility. However, the current density and luminance both rebound significantly at x = 8 nm. This may be due to the fact that the fluorescence quenching strongly occurs at x < 8 nm, and on the other hand, the local surface plasmon polariton is weakened too much at x > 8 nm due to attenuated radiation from BCzVBi. At x = 8 nm, the voltage (9 V) at which the luminance reaches a maximum value is the same as that for the reference device, but the maximum luminance itself decreases from 4200 Cd/m2 to 3500 Cd/m2. However, the current density also decreases from 335.19 mA/cm2 to 145.71 mA/cm2. This conversely results in a promising great increase of current efficiency from 0.88 Cd·A–1 to 2.36 Cd·A–1. Subsequently, the external quantum efficiency (EQE) is enhanced by 170%, while the efficiency roll-off ratio decreases from 78% to 30.5%, with a decrement of 61%. At a high current density of 270 mA/cm2, EQE enhances 66.5%. The coupling between fluorescence excitation state and local surface plasmon polariton is determined by the overlapping between fluorescence emitting peak and plasmon resonance peak. As aluminum has a number density of free electrons, 18.1×1022 cm–3, much larger than those for the other normally used metals (such as gold and silver), its spectrum of local surface plasmon polariton is enough to cover the fluorescence wavelength range of BCzVBi. These research results show that the luminescence efficiency of deep-blue OLEDs can be turned better by LSPP excited in Al-NPs at higher resonance frequencies.
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Keywords:
- deep-blue organic light emitting device /
- localized surface plasmon polariton /
- Al nanometer particle /
- luminescence efficiency.
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图 2 器件结构能级图
Figure 2. Energy level diagram of reference device.
图 1 (a) TmPyPb层内嵌入Al-NPs的器件结构(x = 4, 8, 12 nm); (b) 对比器件结构
Figure 1. (a) Structures of devices with Al-NPs inserted in TmPyPb layer (x = 4, 8, 12 nm); (b) structures of reference device.
图 3 (a) TmPyPb, 以及在TmPyPb上生长 (b) 0.7, (c) 1.0, (d) 1.3 nm厚Al膜的表面形貌; 主图为AFM图像, 下方附图为SEM图像
Figure 3. AFM (with inserted SEM if necessary) images of (a) TmPyPb; (b) 0.7, (c) 1.0, (d) 1.3 nm thick Al films grown on TmPyPb.
图 4 (a) BCzVBi:BCPO的稳态光致发射谱; (b) 瞬态荧光衰减曲线
Figure 4. (a) PL emission spectra of BCzVBi:BCPO; (b) fluorescence attenuation curves.
图 5 有无Al-NPs修饰OLED的电压-电流密度-亮度-电流效率-外量子效率特性图
Figure 5. Voltage-current density-luminance-current efficiency-EQE characteristic curves of OLEDs modified with and without Al-NPs.
图 6 有无Al-NPs修饰OLED的效率滚降比
Figure 6. Roll-off ratios of OLEDs modified with and without Al-NPs.
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[1] 彭灵 2019 博士学位论文 (广州: 华南理工大学)
Peng L 2019 Ph. D. Dissertation (Guangzhou: South China University of Technology
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Google Scholar
[3] Wang S, Lei Z, Zhang B, Ding J, Xie Z, Wang L, Wong W Y 2018 iScience 6 128
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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