Improve efficiency of white organic light-emitting diodes by using nanosphere arrays in color conversion layers

Opt Express. 2012 Jan 30;20(3):3005-14. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.003005.

Abstract

The authors demonstrated an efficient color conversion layer (CCL) by using nanosphere arrays in down-converted white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs). The introduced periodical nanospheres not only helped extract the confined light in devices, but also increased the effective light path to achieve high-efficiency color conversion. By applying a CCL with red phosphor on a 400-nm-period nanosphere array, we achieved 137% color conversion ratio for blue OLEDs, which was 2.68 times higher than conventional flat CCL. The resulting luminous efficiency of WOLEDs with patterned CCLs (20.97 cd/A, 1000 cd/m2) was two times higher than the efficiency of the flat device (10.26 cd/A, 1000 cd/m2).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Color*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Lighting / instrumentation*
  • Nanospheres / chemistry*
  • Nanospheres / ultrastructure*
  • Nanotechnology / instrumentation*
  • Semiconductors*