Higher Light Extraction Efficiency in Organic Light-Emitting Devices by Employing 2D Periodic Corrugation

Yu Bai; Yahui Chuai; Yang Wang; Yingzhi Wang

doi:10.3389/fchem.2021.807867

Higher Light Extraction Efficiency in Organic Light-Emitting Devices by Employing 2D Periodic Corrugation

Front Chem. 2022 Jan 5:9:807867. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.807867. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yu Bai¹, Yahui Chuai¹, Yang Wang¹, Yingzhi Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China.

Abstract

Photons trapped in the form of waveguide (WG) modes associated with the organic-organic interface and in the form of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes associated with the metallic electrode-organic interface result in a large energy loss in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). Introducing gratings onto the metallic electrode is especially crucial for recovering the power lost to the associated SPP modes. In our research, we demonstrate the efficient outcoupling of SPP modes in TE mode by two-dimensional (2D) grating, which cannot excited in one-dimensional (1D) grating OLED. This causes a 62.5% increase in efficiency from 2D grating OLED than 1D grating OLED. The efficient outcoupling of the WG and SPP modes is verified by the numerical simulation of both the emission spectra and the field distribution.

Keywords: OLED (organic light-emitting diode); SPP (surface plasmon plaritons); TE mode and TM mode; light extraction enhancement; periodic (defect) structure.