New double graded structure for enhanced performance in white organic light emitting diode

This study presents a new design that uses a combination of a graded hole transport layer (GH) structure and a gradually doped emissive layer (GE) structure as a double graded (DG) structure to improve the electrical and optical performance of white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs). The proposed structure is ITO/m-MTDATA (15 nm)/NPB (15 nm)/NPB: 25% BAlq (15 nm)/NPB: 50% BAlq (15 nm)/BAlq: 0.5% Rubrene (10 nm)/BAlq: 1% Rubrene (10 nm)/BAlq: 1.5% Rubrene (10 nm)/Alq₃ (20 nm)/LiF (0.5 nm)/Al (200 nm). (m-MTDATA: 4,4′,4″ -tris(3-methylphenylphenylamino)triphenylamine; NPB: N,N′-diphenyl-N,N′-bis(1-naphthyl-phenyl)-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine; BAlq: aluminum (III) bis(2-methyl-8-quinolinato) 4-phenylphenolate; Rubrene: 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene; Alq₃: tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum). By using this structure, the best performance of the WOLED is obtained at a luminous efficiency at 11.8 cd/A and the turn-on voltage of 100 cd/m² at 4.6 V. The DG structure can eliminate the discrete interface, and degrade surplus holes, the electron-hole pairs are efficiently injected and balanced recombination in the emissive layer, thus the spectra are unchanged under various drive currents and quenching effects can be significantly suppressed. Those advantages can enhance efficiency and are immune to drive current density variations.     

Light Amplification in a New Light Transducer Combining an Organic Electroluminescent Diode with Photoresponsive Organic Pigment Film

Light amplification was successfully demonstrated in an all-organic light transducer based on hybridization of an organic electroluminescent diode and a perylene pigment film as an electron photoinjecting electrode. Amplification gain of photon conversion from red to red light reached 25 with the assistance of effective electron photoinjection due to large photocurrent multiplication in a perylene film. Optical switching behavior caused by feedback of output-light to the photoconductive layer was observed.     

White Organic Light-emitting Diodes with A Sr2SiO4:Eu3+ Color Conversion Layer

Abstract:Hybrid inorganic/organic white organic light emitting diodes(hybrid-WOLEDs)are fabricated by combi-ning the blue phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes(PHOLEDs)with red Sr2SiO4:Eu3+phosphor spin coatedas a color conversion layer(CCL)over the other side of glass substrate on the devices.The basic configuration of thePHOLEDs consists a host material,N,N'-dicarbazolyl-3,5-benzene(mCP)which doped with a blue phosphorescentiridium complexes iridium(Ⅲ)bis[(4,6-di-fluorophenyl)-pyridinato-N-C2'](FIrpic)to produce high efficient blueorganic light emitting diodes.The hybrid-WOLED shows maximum luminous efficiency of 22.1 cd/A,maximumpower efficiency of 11.26 lm/W,external quantum efficiency of 10.2%and CIE coordinates of(0.32,0.34).Mo-reover,the output spectra and CIE coordinates of the hybrid-WOLED have a small shift in different driving currentdensity,which demonstrate good color stability.     

Novel Field Emission Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Dynode

This work presents novel field emission organic light emitting diodes(FEOLEDs) with dynode,in which an organic EL light-emitting layer is used instead of an inorganic phosphor thin film in the field emission display(FED).The proposed FEOLEDs introduce field emission electrons into organic light emitting diodes(OLEDs),which exhibit a higher luminous efficiency than conventional OLED.The field emission electrons emitted from the carbon nanotubes(CNTs) cathode and to be amplified by impact the dynode in vacuum.These field emission electrons are injected into the multi-layer organic materials of OLED to increase the electron density.Additionally,the proposed FEOLED increase the luminance of OLED from 10 820 cd/m2 to 24 782 cd/m2 by raising the current density of OLED from an external electron source.The role of FEOLED is to add the quantity of electrons-holes pairs in OLED,which increase the exciton and further increase the luminous efficiency of OLED.Under the same operating current density,the FEOLED exhibits a higher luminous efficiency than that of OLED.     

高效率荧光粉转换型白光有机发光二极管的制备和性能研究

制备了一种荧光粉转换型白光有机发光二级管(pc-WOLEDs),器件由发蓝光的荧光装置和发红光的无机荧光粉Sr₂Si₅N₈∶Eu²⁺颜色转化层(CCL)复合组成,前者通过真空镀膜得到,后者采用旋涂法制备。CCL发射的红光和未被吸收的蓝光复合产生白光,最大发光效率为22.1 cd/A,最大能量效率为11.26 lm/W,外量子效率为10.2%。该pc-WOLEDs的色坐标为(0.32, 0.34),非常接近标准白光(0.33, 0.33)。稳定性实验结果显示,该器件在不同电流密度下表现出了良好的稳定性。     

Effects of different buffer layers on the electro-luminescence performances in white organic light-emitting diodes

The effects of different hole injection materials as the buffer layer on the electro-luminescence (EL) performances of white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) are investigated in detail. It is found that the EL performances and electric properties were strongly dependent on the structure of the used hole injection materials with different thicknesses, which directly affected the injection and transport properties in devices, and thus the EL efficiency and lifetime. It can be seen that a hybrid buffer layer of 5 nm aluminum fluoride (AlF₃)/15 nm 4,4′,4″-tris(3-methylphenylphenylamino) (m-MTDATA) as the hole injection buffer layer shows the best EL performances in efficiency and lifetime, showing a promising hole injection material in WOLEDs. The mechanisms behind the enhanced performance of the hybrid buffer layer in WOLEDs are discussed based on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurement.     

Effect of laser-etched indium tin oxide on optoelectrical properties of organic light-emitting diodes

This study investigated how laser and wet etching methods of ITO substrates affect the optoelectrical properties of OLEDs. Experimental results indicated that the OLED with a laser-etched ITO substrate has a lower driving voltage than that with a wet-etched ITO substrate. According to scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements, the ITO etching methods yielded different surface morphologies of ITO pattern edges. The lower luminance of the OLED with a laser-etched ITO substrate is attributable to the fringe at the edge of ITO pattern, which causes a high local electric field resulting in the recrystallization of organic materials.     

Impairment in Physical Function and Mental Status in a Survivor of Severe COVID-19 at Discharge from an Acute Care a Hospital: A Case Report

Background: Early mobilization and rehabilitation interventions should be provided to patients who survived severe COVID-19 to improve their physical function and activities of daily living (ADL). However, their physical and mental status at discharge has not been well described in Japan. We report the intervention provided for a survivor of severe COVID-19 and his physical and mental status at discharge from an acute care hospital. Case Report: A 62-year-old man was admitted to our emergency department with a diagnosis of COVID-19 with severe acute respiratory dysfunction. He had complicated intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) and delirium during mechanical ventilation therapy. Rehabilitation intervention was initiated on the seventh day post-admission and was gradually performed according to his respiratory and hemodynamic status. As a result of the rehabilitation intervention, ICU-AW and cognitive function gradually improved. On hospital day 37, he independently performed basic ADL and was discharged. However, he lost approximately 9% of his body weight at discharge. In addition, his hand grip strength and six-minute walking distance were lower and shorter than the reference values, respectively. His mental component summary of the Short Form-8™ was lower than the national standard deviation for the Japanese population. Conclusion: Although survivors of severe COVID-19 who undergo early rehabilitation can be discharged from an acute care hospital, they may have several impairments in their physical and mental status, including muscle function, diffusion capacity, exercise tolerance, and health-related quality of life.     

Enhancing The Efficiency of White Organic Light-emitting Diode Using Energy Recyclable Photovoltaic Cells

We demonstrate that power recycling is feasible by using a semi-transparent stripped Al electrode as interconnecting layer to merge a white organic light-emitting devices (WOLED) and an organic photovoltaic(OPV) cell. The device is called a PVOLED. It has a glass/ITO/CuPc/m-MTDATA∶V2O5/NPB/CBP∶FIrpic∶DCJTB/BPhen/LiF/Al/P3HT∶PCBM/V2O5/Al structure. The power recycling efficiency of 10.133% is achieved under the WOLED of PVOLED operated at 9 V and at a brightness of 2 110 cd/m2, when the conversion efficiency of OPV is 2.3%. We have found that the power recycling efficiency is decreased under high brightness and high applied voltage due to an increase input power of WOLED. High efficiency (18.3 cd/A) and high contrast ratio (9.3) were obtained at the device operated at 2 500 cd/m2 under an ambient illumination of 24 000 lx. Reasonable white light emission with Commission Internationale De L'Eclairage (CIE) color coordinates of (0.32,0.44) at 20 mA/cm2 and slight color shift occurred in spite of a high current density of 50 mA/cm2. The proposed PVOLED is highly promising for use in outdoors display applications.     

Toward the detection of gravitational waves under non-Gaussian noises I. Locally optimal statistic

After reviewing the standard hypothesis test and the matched filter technique to identify gravitational waves under Gaussian noises, we introduce two methods to deal with non-Gaussian stationary noises. We formulate the likelihood ratio function under weakly non-Gaussian noises through the Edgeworth expansion and strongly non-Gaussian noises in terms of a new method we call Gaussian mapping where the observed marginal distribution and the two-body correlation function are fully taken into account. We then apply these two approaches to Student’s t-distribution which has a larger tails than Gaussian. It is shown that while both methods work well in the case the non-Gaussianity is small, only the latter method works well for highly non-Gaussian case.