Two-stacked tandem white organic light emitting diodes employing WO3 as a charge generation layer

Jong-Kwan Bin; Na Yeon Lee; SeungJae Lee; Bomin Seo; JoongHwan Yang; Jinook Kim; Soo Young Yoon; InByeong Kang

doi:10.1117/12.2236438

23 September 2016 Two stacked tandem white organic light-emitting diodes employing WO₃ as a charge generation layer

Jong-Kwan Bin, Na Yeon Lee, SeungJae Lee, Bomin Seo, JoongHwan Yang, Jinook Kim, Soo Young Yoon, InByeong Kang

Proceedings Volume 9941, Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices XX; 99411T (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236438
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, many studies have been conducted to improve the electroluminescence (EL) performance of organic lightemitting diodes (OLEDs) by using appropriate organic or inorganic materials as charge generation layer (CGL) for their application such as full color displays, backlight units, and general lighting source. In a stacked tandem white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs), a few emitting units are electrically interconnected by a CGL, which plays the role of generating charge carriers, and then facilitate the injection of it into adjacent emitting units. In the present study, twostacked WOLEDs were fabricated by using tungsten oxide (WO₃) as inorganic charge generation layer and 1,4,5,8,9,11- hexaazatriphenylene hexacarbonitrile (HAT-CN) as organic charge generation layer (P-CGL). Organic P-CGL materials were used due to their ease of use in OLED fabrication as compared to their inorganic counterparts. To obtain high efficiency, we demonstrate two-stacked tandem WOLEDs as follows: ITO/HIL/HTL/HTL′/B-EML/ETL/N-CGL/P-CGL (WO₃ or HAT-CN)/HTL″/YG-EML/ETL/LiF/Al. The tandem devices with blue- and yellow-green emitting layers were sensitive to the thickness of an adjacent layer, hole transporting layer for the YG emitting layer. The WOLEDs containing the WO₃ as charge generation layer reach a higher power efficiency of 19.1 lm/W and the current efficiency of 51.2 cd/A with the white color coordinate of (0.316, 0.318) than the power efficiency of 13.9 lm/W, and the current efficiency of 43.7 cd/A for organic CGL, HAT-CN at 10 mA/cm², respectively. This performance with inserting WO₃ as CGL exhibited the highest performance with excellent CIE color coordinates in the two-stacked tandem OLEDs.

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Jong-Kwan Bin, Na Yeon Lee, SeungJae Lee, Bomin Seo, JoongHwan Yang, Jinook Kim, Soo Young Yoon, and InByeong Kang "Two stacked tandem white organic light-emitting diodes employing WO₃ as a charge generation layer", Proc. SPIE 9941, Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices XX, 99411T (23 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236438

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