Effect of thickness variation of hole injection and hole blocking layers on the performance of fluorescent green organic light emitting diodes

Narayan, K and Varadharajaperumal, S and Rao, Mohan G and Varma, C and Srinivas, T (2013) Effect of thickness variation of hole injection and hole blocking layers on the performance of fluorescent green organic light emitting diodes. In: CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS, 13 (1). pp. 18-25.

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Abstract

In this paper we present the effect of thickness variation of hole injection and hole blocking layers on the performance of fluorescent green organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). A number of OLED devices have been fabricated with combinations of hole injecting and hole blocking layers of varying thicknesses. Even though hole blocking and hole injection layers have opposite functions, yet there is a particular combination of their thicknesses when they function in conjunction and luminous efficiency and power efficiency are maximized. The optimum thickness of CuPc (Copper(II) phthalocyanine) layer, used as hole injection layer and BCP (2,9 dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) used as hole blocking layer were found to be 18 nm and 10 nm respectively. It is with this delicate adjustment of thicknesses, charge balancing is achieved and luminous efficiency and power efficiency were optimized. The maximum luminous efficiency of 3.82 cd/A at a current density of 24.45 mA/cm(2) and maximum power efficiency of 2.61 lm/W at a current density of 5.3 mA/cm(2) were achieved. We obtained luminance of 5993 cd/m(2) when current density was 140 mA/cm(2). The EL spectra was obtained for the LEDs and found that it has a peaking at 524 nm of wavelength. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier Science
Keywords:	Charge balancing; Luminous efficiency; Radiative recombination; Hole blocking layer; Hole injection layer
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Nano Science and Engineering Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2012 11:08
Last Modified:	15 Oct 2012 11:08
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45218

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