Ultra-Smooth and Efficient NiO/Ag/NiO Transparent Electrodes for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Devices

Yu Bai; Yahui Chuai; Yingzhi Wang; Yang Wang

doi:10.3390/mi13091511

Ultra-Smooth and Efficient NiO/Ag/NiO Transparent Electrodes for Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Devices

Micromachines (Basel). 2022 Sep 12;13(9):1511. doi: 10.3390/mi13091511.

Authors

Yu Bai¹, Yahui Chuai², Yingzhi Wang¹, Yang Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Electronic Information Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China.
² School of Physics, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China.

Abstract

We demonstrate highly flexible and efficient organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) using an ultra-smooth NAN anode. A template-stripping process was employed to create an ultra-smooth NAN anode on a photopolymer substrate. The flexible OLEDs obtained by this method maintained good electroluminescent properties and mechanical stability after bending. The efficiency of the flexible OLEDs was improved by 30.6% compared with conventional OLEDs deposited on PET/ITO substrate due to the enhanced hole injection from the ultra-smooth anode.

Keywords: NiO; flexible OLEDs; transparent electrode.

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