• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 13, Issue 3, 032301 (2015)
Jin Sung Kang1, Ju-An Yoon1, Seung Il Yoo1, Jin Wook Kim1, Bo Mi Lee2, Hyeong Hwa Yu2, C.-B. Moon1, and Woo Young Kim1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Green Energy and Semiconductor Engineering, Hoseo University, Asan 330-713, South Korea
  • 2Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S4L8, Canada
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201513.032301 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jin Sung Kang, Ju-An Yoon, Seung Il Yoo, Jin Wook Kim, Bo Mi Lee, Hyeong Hwa Yu, C.-B. Moon, Woo Young Kim. Highly efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes using various hole and electron confinement layers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(3): 032301 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In this Letter, blue phosphorescence organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) employ structures for electron and/or hole confinement; 1,3,5-tris(N-phenylbenzimiazole-2-yl)benzene is used as a hole confinement layer and tris-(phenylpyrazole)iridium [Ir(ppz)3] is utilized for an electron confinement layer (ECL). The electrical and optical properties of the fabricated blue PHOLEDs with various carrier-confinement structures are analyzed. Structures with a large energy offset between the carrier confinement and emitting layers enhance the charge-carrier balance in the emitting region, resulting from the effective carrier confinement. The maximum external quantum efficiency of the blue PHOLEDs with the double-ECLs is 24.02% at 1500 cd/m2 and its luminous efficiency is 43.76 cd/A, which is 70.47% improved compared to the device without a carrier-confinement layer.
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    Jin Sung Kang, Ju-An Yoon, Seung Il Yoo, Jin Wook Kim, Bo Mi Lee, Hyeong Hwa Yu, C.-B. Moon, Woo Young Kim. Highly efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes using various hole and electron confinement layers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2015, 13(3): 032301
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