Efficient polymer white-light-emitting diodes with a single-emission layer of fluorescent polymer blend

Efficient polymer white-light-emitting diodes (WPLEDs) have been fabricated with a single layer of fluorescent polymer blend. The device structure consists of ITO/PEDOT/PVK/emissive layer/Ba/Al. The emissive layer is a blend of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (PFO), phenyl-substituted PPV derivative (P-PPV) and a copolymer of 9,9-dioctylfluorene and 4,7-di(4-hexylthien-2-yl)-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (PFO-DHTBT), which, respectively, emits blue, green and red light. The emission of pure and efficient white light was implemented by tuning the blend weight ratio of PFO: P-PPV: PFO-DHTBT to 96:4:0.4. The maximum current efficiency and luminance are, respectively, 7.6 cd/A at 6.7 V and 11930 cd/m² at 11.2 V. The CIE coordinates of white-light emission were stable with the drive voltages.     

Non-doped phosphorescent white organic light-emitting devices with a quadruple-quantum-well structure

Non-doped white organic light-emitting devices (WOLEDs) with a quadruple-quantum-well structure were fabricated. An alternate layer of ultrathin blue and yellow iridium complexes was employed as the potential well layer, while potential barrier layers (PBLs) were chosen to be 2,2',2''-(1,3,5-benzenetriyl)-tris(1-phenyl-1-H-benzimidazole) (TPBi) or N,N'-dicarbazolyl-3,5-benzene (mCP) combined TPBi. On adjusting the PBLs for device performance comparison, the results showed that the device with all-TPBi PBLs exhibited a yellow emission with the color coordinates of (0.50,0.47) at a luminance of 1000 cd/m², while stable white emission with the color coordinates of (0.36,0.44) was observed in the device using mCP combined TPBi as the PBLs. Meanwhile, for the WOLED, with a reduced efficiency roll-off, a maximum luminance, luminous efficiency, and external quantum efficiency of 12,610 cd/m², 10.2 cd/A, and 4.4%, respectively, were achieved. The performance improvement by the introduction of mCP PBL was ascribed to the well confined exciton and the reduced exciton quenching effect in the multiple emission regions.     

Enhanced luminance of white organic light-emitting diode with yellow nanophosphors-embedded blue polymer emitting layer

White organic light-emitting device was achieved through an incorporation of yellow YAG nanophosphors into blue polyfluorene emitting layer: electrode/YAG@polyfluorene/hole-transport/injection layers/ITO glass. The brightness of the proposed device (230 cd/m² at 30 V) was enhanced by a factor of about two in comparison with that of phosphor-free reference device. It is attributed to the increased local electric field caused by bumps of nanophophors on the emitting layer. With increase of voltage, the blue-green emission decreased whereas the yellow emission increased. It is due to the effective energy transfer from the blue-green to the yellow bands.     

White organic electroluminescence from fluorescent bis (2-(2-hydroxyphenyl) benzoxazolate)zinc doped with phosphorescent material

Efficient white electroluminescence has been obtained by using an electroluminescent layer comprising of a blue fluorescent bis (2-(2-hydroxyphenyl) benzoxazolate)zinc [Zn(hpb)₂] doped with red phosphorescent bis (2-(2′-benzothienyl) pyridinato-N,C^3′)iridium(acetylacetonate) [Ir(btp)₂acac] molecules. The color coordinates of the white emission spectrum was controlled by optimizing the concentration of red dopant in the blue fluorescent emissive layer. Organic light-emitting diodes were fabricated in the configuration ITO/α-NPD/Zn(hpb)₂:0.01 wt%Ir(btp)₂acac/BCP/Alq₃/LiF/Al. The J-V-L characteristic of the device shows a turn on voltage of 5 V. The electroluminescence (EL) spectra of the device cover a wide range of visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum with three peaks around 450, 485 and 610 nm. A maximum white luminance of 3500 cd/m² with CIE coordinates of (x, y=0.34, 0.27) at 15 V has been achieved. The maximum current efficiency and power efficiency of the device was 5.2 cd/A and 1.43 lm/W respectively at 11.5 V.     

The luminescence properties of Er-doped and Er-Tm-co-doped phosphate glasses for white light emitting diode

Phosphate glasses and glass ceramics doped with Er³⁺ and co-doped with Er³⁺-Tm³⁺ are presented in this work. The luminescence properties have been characterized by absorption, excitation and emission spectra. All samples excited by blue light could emit a combination of blue/green/orange/red wavelength giving white light. For Er³⁺-doped glasses, a self-quenching effect has been obtained and an adjustable tune comes out after crystallization. For co-doped glasses, the red emission at 651 nm has been enhanced due to the existence of Tm³⁺, which could be relative to both the overlapped emissions and the energy transfer from Tm³⁺ to Er³⁺.     

Low driving voltage in white organic light-emitting diodes using an interfacial energy barrier free multilayer emitting structure

The driving voltage of white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) with blue fluorescent and red phosphorescent emitting materials was lowered by using a device architecture with little energy barrier between emitting layers. A mixed layer of hole and electron transport materials was used as a host material and an interlayer, reducing the driving voltage of WOLEDs. The driving voltage of WOLEDs was reduced by more than 4 V and power efficiency of WOLEDs was improved by more than 40% due to little energy barrier for holes and electrons injection in light-emitting layer. In addition, there was little change of electroluminescence spectra from 100 to 10,000 cd/m².     

Short-living absorption and emission of CsI(Na)

This paper investigates the short-living absorption and the emission of CsI(Na) under a pulsed electron beam (Е_e=0.25 MeV, t_1/2=15 ns and W=0.003…0.16 J/cm²). The bands of singlet self-trapped excitons, as well as Na⁰ and V_k color centers have been detected in the transient absorption spectrum of CsI(Na). It has been found that the activator luminescence spectrum, peaking at 3.0 eV, fits a Gaussian (E_m=3.0 eV and FWHM=0.44±0.02 eV at 80 K) and remains the same at different time delays within 10⁻⁸-10⁻³ s. The decay kinetics of the 3.0 eV emission has one nanosecond exponential component and two microsecond ones with time constants 1.0 and 3.0 μs, which remain unchanged within 78-150 K. It is concluded that the activator emission is due to the radiative annihilation of sodium-perturbed two halide excitons from the non-relaxed singlet state. The pathways of such excitons creation are discussed.     

Efficient bright white organic light-emitting diode based on non-doped ultrathin 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene layer

High-performance undoped white organic light-emitting diode (OLED) has been fabricated using an ultrathin yellow-emitting layer of 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene (rubrene) inserted at two sides of interface between two N,N′-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N′- biphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′- diamine (NPB) layers as a hole transporting and blue emissive layer, respectively. The results showed that a maximum luminance of the device reached to as high as 21,500 cd/m² at 15 V. The power efficiencies of 2.5 and 1.6 lm/W at a luminance of 1000 and 10000 cd/m², respectively, were obtained. The peaks of electroluminescent (EL) spectra locate at 429 and 560 nm corresponding to the Commissions Internationale De L’Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.32, 0.33), which is independent of bias voltage. The performance enhancement of the device may result from direct charge carrier trapping in rubrene. Energy transfer mechanism was also found in the EL process.     

Simple-structure white organic light emitting diodes with high color temperature

We present high color temperature white organic light emitting diodes with a simple p-i-n structure. A sky blue phosphorescent dopant of iridium(III) bis[4,6-(difluorophenyl)-pyridinato-N,C^2’] picolinate and a red phosphorescent dopant of bis(2-phenylquinoline)(acetylacetonate)iridium(III) in the emissive layers is employed to make high color temperature devices. Very stable color variation under ?0.02 until a 5000 cd/m² brightness value is realized by efficient carrier control in a multi stacked emitting layer of blue/red/blue colors. Maximum current and power efficiencies of 23.8 cd/A and 22.9 lm/W in forward direction are obtained. With balanced emissions from the two emitters, the white light emission with very high correlated color temperature of 7308 K as well as CIE coordinates of (0.30, 0.33) is achieved.     

Screen-printed white OLED based on polystyrene as a host polymer

We demonstrate the use of screen printing in the fabrication of single-layer organic-light-emitting devices (OLEDs). The organic layer is a single-layer of polystyrene, in which we incorporate rubrene for orange emission and α-NPD, DPVBi for blue emission. An appropriate mixing of the two colors produced white emission by incomplete Förster energy transfer. We showed the role of each constituent, α-NPD, DPVBi and rubrene in the emission characteristics of OLEDs. The turn-on voltage of screen-printed white OLEDs was about 10 V with maximum brightness and luminous efficiency up to 1300 cd/m² and 9 cd/A, respectively.     

High-efficiency blue and white phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices

We have significantly improved the efficiency of blue and white phosphorescence from organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) based on phosphorescent iridium complexes. To improve the emission efficiency, 4,4^′-Bis(9-carbazolyl)-2,2^′-Dimethyl-biphenyl (CDBP), which has a high triplet energy, was used as the carrier-transporting host for the emissive layer. The blue phosphorescent OLED exhibited a maximum external quantum efficiency of 10.4%, which corresponds to a current efficiency of 20.4 cd/A. This result can be explained as due to the efficient confinement of triplet energy on blue phosphorescent molecules, which is consistent with the results of transient photoluminescence experiments. The white phosphorescent OLED with greenish-blue and red emissive layers exhibited a maximum external quantum efficiency of 12% and a luminous efficiency of 18 cd/A. This is primarily attributed to the improvement of greenish-blue emission efficiency as well as the emission efficiency of the blue phosphorescent OLED.     

Synthesis and luminescence of Eu-doped alkaline-earth apatites for application in white LED

A series of Eu²⁺-doped alkaline-earth apatites (alkaline-earth=Ca, Sr and Ba) were synthesized by a solid state reaction method with excess chlorides, and the effect of the used excess chlorides on the luminescent property of the synthesized products was discussed. Photoluminescence measurements showed that Eu²⁺-doped calcium apatite exhibited intensely blue wide-band emission peaking at 457 nm under near UV excitation among the Eu²⁺-doped Ca, Sr and Ba apatites. Blue and white LEDs were successfully fabricated by pre-coating the calcium apatite phosphors onto ∼395 nm-emitting InGaN chips. The CIE coordinates, color temperature, luminous efficacy and rendering index value of the fabricated white LED are (0.3432, 0.3234), 4969 K, 8 lm/W and 80, respectively. The results indicate that the Eu²⁺-activated calcium apatite phosphor is a promising candidate as a blue component for fabrication of near UV-based white LEDs.     

Photoluminescence from C ion-implanted and electrochemical etched Si layers

The microstructural and optical analysis of Si layers emitting blue luminescence at about 431 nm is reported. These structures have been synthesized by C⁺ ion implantation and high-temperature annealing in hydrogen atmosphere and electrochemical etching sequentially. With the increasing etching time, the intensity of the blue peak increases at first, decreases then and is substituted by a new red peak at 716 nm at last, which shows characteristics of the emission of porous silicon. CO compounds are induced during C⁺ implantation and nanometer silicon with embedded structure is formed during annealing, which contributes to the blue emission. The possible mechanism of photoluminescence is presented.     

Pure blue and white light electroluminescence in a multilayer organic light-emitting diode using a new blue emitter

We characterized the 6,12-bis{[N-（3,4-dimethylphenyl）-N-（2,4,5-trimethylphenyl）]amino} chrysene （BmPAC）, which has been proven to be a blue fluorescent emission with high EL efficiency. The blue fluorescent device exhibits good performance with an external quantum efficiency of 5.8% and current efficiency of 8.9 cd/A, respectively. Using BmPAC, we also demonstrate a hybrid phosphorescence/fluorescence white organic light-emitting device （WOLED） with high efficiency of 36.3 cd/A. In order to improve the relative intensity of blue light, we plus a blue light-emitting layer （BEML） in front of the orange light emitting layer （YEML） to take advantage of the excess singlet excitons. With the new emitting layer of BEML/YEML/BEML, we demonstrate the fluorescence/phosphorescence/fluorescence WOLED exhibits good performance with a current efficiency of 47 cd/A and an enhanced relative intensity of blue light.     

Control of the cool/warm white light generation from lanthanide ions in monoclinic double tungstate crystals

We studied the physical effects arising from the combination of several concentrations of luminescent ions, Ho, Tm and Yb in a biaxial crystal to achieve the optimum multicolour emission for cool or warm white light generation. White light is generated by the simultaneous emission and combination of three photons at wavelengths, 475 (blue), 542 (green) and 651 nm (red) with associated energies, 21,053 cm⁻¹, 18,450 cm⁻¹ and 15,361 cm⁻¹, respectively. The physical mechanism that generated the white light involved the absorption of infrared photons and after partial energy transfer to neighbouring ions, excited state absorption and upconversion phenomena took place to combine the emerging photons at the above wavelengths. White light is generated with rather high efficiency and very low excitation threshold. The control of simultaneous light generation is accomplished with the amount of dopant ions in the crystal.     

Synthesis, characterization and optical properties of water-soluble ZnS:Mn nanoparticles

ZnS nanoparticles with Mn²⁺ doping (0.5-20%) have been prepared through a simple chemical method, namely the chemical precipitation method. The structure of the nanoparticles has been analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and UV-vis spectrometer. The size of the particles is found to be 3-5 nm range. Photoluminescence spectra were recorded for undoped ZnS nanoparticles using an excitation wavelength of 320 nm, exhibiting an emission peak centered at around 445 nm. However, from the Mn²⁺-doped samples, a yellow-orange emission from the Mn²⁺⁴T₁-⁶A₁ transition is observed along with the blue emission. The prepared Mn²⁺-doped sample shows efficient emission of yellow-orange light with the peak emission 580 nm with the blue emission suppressed. The maximum PL intensity is observed only at the excitation energy of 3.88 eV (320 nm). Increase in stabilizing time up to 48 h in de-ionized water yields the enhancement of emission intensity of doped (4% Mn²⁺) ZnS. The correlation made through the concentration of Mn²⁺ versus PL intensity resulted in opposite trend (mirror image) of blue and yellow emissions.     

基于ZnS增透膜的顶发射白光有机发光二极管

顶发射白光有机发光二极管(TEWOLED)在白光照明和全彩显示中有着良好的应用前景, 克服顶发射器件中的微腔效应是制备光电性能良好的TEWOLED的前提. 使用具有高折射率的ZnS作为增透膜改善金属阴极在蓝光波段的透射率,降低其反射性, 从而有效抑制了微腔的影响.同时利用转移矩阵理论和宽角干涉方法分别对阴极结构和 蓝光发光层位置进行了优化,最终获得了高效、色纯度良好、色度随视角变化小的TEWOLED. 最高亮度和效率分别达到9213 cd/m²和3 cd/A,色坐标位于白光区且接近白光等能点, 同时具有良好的视角稳定性,在0°---60°范围内色坐标仅变化(0.02, 0).     

Optical properties of white organic light-emitting devices fabricated with three primary-color emitters by using organic molecular-beam deposition

White organic light-emitting devices (WOLEDs) with Mg:Ag/Alq₃/Alq₃:DCJTB/Alq₃/DPVBi/α-NPD/ITO and Mg:Ag/Alq₃/DPVBi:DCJTB/Alq₃/DPVBi/α-NPD/ITO structures were fabricated with three primary-color emitters of red, green, and blue by using organic molecular-beam deposition. Electroluminescence spectra showed that the dominant white peak for the WOLEDs fabricated with host red-luminescence Alq₃ and DPVBi layers did not change regardless of variations in the current. The Commission Inernationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) chromaticity coordinates for the two WOLEDs were stable, and the WOLEDs at 40 mA/cm² with luminances of 690 and 710 cd/cm² showed an optimum white CIE chromaticity of (0.33, 0.33). While the luminance yield of the WOLED fabricated with a host red-luminescent Alq₃ emitting layer below 30 mA/cm³ was larger than that of the WOLED fabricated with a DPVBi layer, above 30 mA/cm², the luminance yield of the WOLED fabricated with the DPVBi layer was higher than that of the WOLED with the Alq₃ layer and became more stable with increasing current density. These results indicate that WOLEDs fabricated with a host red-luminescence DPVBi layer without any quenching behavior hold promise for potential applications in backlight sources in full-color displays.     

Characterization of two-emitter WOLED with no additional blocking layer

In this paper, white organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) utilizing two primary-color emitters with no additional blocking layer are fabricated. With a structure of ITO/2TNATA (20 nm)/NPB (20 nm)/NPB: rubrene (2%) (10 nm)/ADN (30 nm)/Alq₃ (20 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm), a white light with CIE coordinates of (0.344, 0.372) is generated at a current density of 30 mA/cm² and the electroluminescence (EL) spectra consist of two broad bands around 456 nm (ADN) and 556 nm (NPB:rubrene). The device shows the low turn-on voltage and bright white emission with a power efficiency of 2.3 lm/W at a luminance of 100 cd/m². Through control of the location of the recombination zone and energy transfer, a stable white light emission is achieved. The maximum color shift is less than 0.02 units on the 1931 CIE x,y chromaticity diagram. Given the spectral power distribution of WOLED, the parameters of a light source (chromaticity coordinate, CCT, CRI, and the luminous efficacy) can be calculated. A MATLAB program for this purpose is developed in this paper. Based on this, the design of WOLED for an illumination and display system using a white emitter with color filter arrays is discussed.     

Highly efficient all phosphorescent white organic light-emitting diodes for solid state lighting applications

We report highly efficient all phosphorescent white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with an exciton-confinement structure. By stacking two emissive layers (EMLs) with different charge transporting properties, effective charges as well as exciton confinements were achieved. Accordingly, efficient blue OLEDs with a peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) over 22% and power efficacy (PE) over 50 lm/W were developed by using iridium(III) bis(4,6-(difluorophenyl) pyridinato-N,C2′)picolinate (FIrpic) as an electro-phosphorescent dopant. When the optimized orange and red EMLs were sandwiched between the stacked two blue EMLs, white OLEDs with an EQE and PE of 24.3% and 45.9 lm/W at a luminance of 1000 cd/m² were obtained without the use of any out-coupling techniques. In addition, these white OLEDs exhibit a color rendering index (CRI) value of 84 with high efficacy.