Highly efficient hybrid light-emitting device using complex of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots embedded in co-polymer as an active layer

Opt Express. 2010 Aug 16;18(17):18303-11. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.018303.

Abstract

We propose a highly efficient hybrid light-emitting device (LED) with a single active layer where CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) are dispersed as a guest material in a conjugated polymer (co-polymer) matrix used for a host material. In our structure, the QDs act on light-emitting chromophores by trapping the migrating excitons in the co-polymer matrix via Förster energy transfer, and improve the charge balance within the co-polymer by trapping the injected electron carriers. Experimental results show that the electroluminescent properties highly depend on the doping density of the QDs within the co-polymer matrix, where the luminance as well as the external current efficiency are initially enhanced with increasing the concentration of the dispersed QDs in the co-polymer solution, and then such properties are degraded due to aggregation of the QDs. We can get the maximum brightness of 9,088 cd/m(2) and the maximum external current efficiency of 7.5 cd/A in mixing ratio of the QDs by 1.0 wt%. The external current efficiency is enhanced by over 15 times and the turn-on voltage is reduced in comparison with the corresponding values for a reference device that uses only a co-polymer as an active layer.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cadmium Compounds / chemistry*
  • Equipment Design
  • Light*
  • Luminescence
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Optical Devices*
  • Organophosphorus Compounds / chemistry
  • Polymers / chemistry
  • Quantum Dots*
  • Selenium Compounds / chemistry*
  • Sulfides / chemistry*
  • Zinc Compounds / chemistry*

Substances

  • Cadmium Compounds
  • Organophosphorus Compounds
  • Polymers
  • Selenium Compounds
  • Sulfides
  • Zinc Compounds
  • trioctyl phosphine oxide
  • cadmium selenide
  • zinc sulfide