Design of Tandem Organic Light Emitting Diode using efficient charge generation layer

• Published in: Optical materials Vol. 88; pp. 304 - 312
• Main Authors: Jetly, Akanksha, Mehra, Rajesh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-02-2019
• Subjects: Charge generation layer; Efficiency improvement; Electron injection; Tandem OLED; Efficiency improvement; Tandem OLED; Charge generation layer; Electron injection
• ISSN: 0925-3467; 1873-1252
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2018.11.051

In this work, highly efficient Tandem Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) based on planar organic charge generation layer (CGL) of C70/Pentacene is proposed. It is found that the proposed CGL generate charges as well as exhibits organic photovoltaic type behavior. In addition a very thin layer of Al/LiF and PEDOT:PSS is used as electron and hole injection layer respectively to further increase the transport of electrons and holes from CGL to emissive unit. The current efficiency and luminance of red tandem device is found to be 29 cd/A and 29010 cd/m2 at 20 mA/cm2 and 100 mA/cm2 respectively which is 1.855 times 1.856 times greater than that of single emitter device having current efficiency and luminance of 15.63 cd/A and 15630 cd/cm2 at the same current densities Generally, the turn on voltage of Tandem devices is almost double as compared to single unit device. But with the proposed CGL the turn on voltage of red tandem device is found to be 5.9 V which is less than double the turn on voltage of single unit device (3 V). Therefore, the effective charge generation and transport property of proposed CGL as well as remarkable high injection property of thin Al layer and PEDOT:PSS leads to the enhancement in the efficiency of tandem OLED.
•An efficient Red Tandem OLED is designed using multilayers of C70/Pentacene/Al/LiF/PEDOT:PSS.•The optimized thickness is found to be 5 nm for both C70 and Pentacene.•Remarkable enhancement in both current efficiency and luminance is marked.•The turn –on voltage of tandem device is found to be less than twice the turn on voltage of single emitting device.