Power Consumption and Temperature Increase in Large Area Active-Matrix OLED Displays

We model and analyze the power consumption and resulting temperature rise in active-matrix organic-light-emitting device (AMOLED) displays as a function of the OLED efficiency, display resolution and display size. Power consumption is a critical issue for mobile display applications as it directly impacts battery requirements, and it is also very important for large area applications where it affects the display temperature rise, which directly impacts the panel lifetime. Phosphorescent OLEDs (PHOLEDs) are shown to offer significant advantage as compared to conventional fluorescent OLEDs due to high luminous efficiency resulting in lower pixel currents, reducing both the power consumed in the OLED devices and the series connected driving thin-film transistor (TFT). The power consumption and temperature rise of OLED displays are calculated as a function of the device efficiency, display size, display luminance and the type of backplane technology employed. The impact of using top-emission OLEDs is also discussed.     

External Compensation of Nonuniform Electrical Characteristics of Thin-Film Transistors and Degradation of OLED Devices in AMOLED Displays

The variation of electrical characteristics of polycrystalline-silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) and degradation of organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) device cause nonuniform intensity of luminance and image sticking in active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays. An external compensation method that senses and compensates variations of threshold voltage and mobility of TFTs and degradation of OLED device is proposed. The effect of the external compensation method on AMOLED pixel is experimentally verified by measuring the luminance of OLEDs and the electrical characteristics of TFTs in AMOLED pixels.      

Recent Advances in OLED Optical Design

Organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become a mainstream display technology in consumer electronics. Self‐emitting ability, transparency, true dark tone, and capability of being made flexible are some of the features of OLED displays, leading to a superior performance compared with liquid crystal displays. In addition to displays, OLEDs are also a strong candidate for lighting applications. Despite great advances in improving the internal quantum efficiency of an OLED to nearly 100%, the external quantum efficiency is still lacking behind due to optical losses. This review reports the latest advances in the optical design of OLEDs that address the external coupling efficiency of OLEDs. Discussed at first are the fundamentals of OLED optics and how the refractive indices of different layers in an OLED stack affect the extraction efficiency. Then, this paper reviews how microlens arrays, scattering layers, and corrugated structures can be used to recover the optical losses and improve the external efficiency, and the general optical designs for different optical structures for light extraction are presented.     

Recent Progress in High‐Efficiency Blue‐Light‐Emitting Materials for Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

Organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) are increasingly used in displays replacing traditional flat panel displays; e.g., liquid crystal displays. Especially, the paradigm shifts in displays from rigid to flexible types accelerated the market change from liquid crystal displays to OLEDs. However, some critical issues must be resolved for expansion of OLED use, of which blue device performance is one of the most important. Therefore, recent OLED material development has focused on the design, synthesis and application of high‐efficiency and long‐life blue emitters. Well‐known blue fluorescent emitters have been modified to improve their efficiency and lifetime, and blue phosphorescent emitters are being investigated to overcome the lifetime issue. Recently, thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters have received attention due to the potential of high‐efficiency and long‐living emitters. Therefore, it is timely to review the recent progress and future prospects of high‐efficiency blue emitters. In this feature article, we summarize recent developments in blue fluorescent, phosphorescent and thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters, and suggest key issues for each emitter and future development strategies.     

Feel the Heat: Nonlinear Electrothermal Feedback in Organic LEDs

For lighting applications, organic light‐emitting diodes (OLED) need much higher brightness than for displays, leading to self‐heating. Due to the temperature‐activated transport in organic semiconductors, this can result in brightness inhomogeneities and catastrophic failure. Here, it is shown that due to the strong electrothermal feedback of OLEDs, the common spatial current and voltage distribution is completely changed, requiring advanced device modeling and operation concepts. This study clearly demonstrates the effect of S‐shaped negative differential resistance in OLEDs induced by self‐heating. As a consequence, for increasing voltage, regions with declining voltages are propagating through the device, and even more interestingly, a part of these regions show even decreasing currents, leading to strong local variation in luminance. The expected breakthrough of OLED lighting technology will require an improved price performance ratio, and the realization of modules with very high brightness but untainted appearance is considered to be an essential step into this direction. Thus, a deeper understanding of the control of electrothermal feedback will help to make OLEDs in lighting more competitive.     

Direct Encapsulation of Organic Light-Emitting Devices (OLEDs) Using Photo-Curable co-Polyacrylate/Silica Nanocomposite Resin

Direct encapsulation of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) was realized by using highly transparent, photo-curable co-polyacrylate/silica nanocomposite resin. Feasibility of such a resin for OLED encapsulation was evaluated by physical/electrical property analysis of resins and driving voltage/luminance/lifetime measurement of OLEDs. Electrical property analysis revealed a higher electrical insulation of photocured nanocomposite resin film at 3.20times10¹² Omega in comparison with that of oligomer film at 1.18times10¹² Omega at 6.15 V to drive the bare OLED. This resulted a lower leakage current and the device driving voltage was efficiently reduced so that the nanocomposite-encapsulated OLED could be driven at a lower driving voltage of 6.09 V rather than 6.77 V for the oligomer-encapsulated OLED at the current density of 20 mA/cm². Luminance measurement revealed a less than 1.0% luminance difference of OLEDs encapsulated by various types of resins, which indicates that the photo-polymerization takes very little effect on the light-emitting property of OLEDs. Lifetime measurement of OLEDs found that , the time span for the normalized luminance of device drops to 80%, for nanocomposite-encapsulated OLED is 350.17 h in contrast to 16.83 h for bare OLED and 178.17 h for the oligomer-encapsulated OLED. This demonstrates that nanocomposite resin with optimum properties is feasible to OLED packaging and a compact device structure could be achieved via the method of direct encapsulation.     

Design of Lanthanide‐Based OLEDs with Remarkable Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence

Organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) able to directly emit circularly polarized (CP) electroluminescence (CP‐OLEDs) are rapidly gaining much interest, due to their possible applications in displays with antiglare filters and 3D displays. Development of more efficient CP‐OLEDs can open their use also in point‐of‐care and personalized diagnostic tools, since CP light alteration can be related to health state of irradiated tissues. In this work it is shown that the performance of chiral europium complex‐based CP‐OLEDs can be improved both in terms of external quantum efficiency (measured on all the Eu bands) and degree of polarization of emitted photons (as measured by the dissymmetry factor g _EL), by proper active layer formulation and through a fine tuning of the architecture of the device. Polarization performances (g _EL = ?1) are obtained about three times higher than for any other CP‐OLED reported so far. Moreover, for the first time, it is shown that the position of the recombination zone (RZ) plays a major role on the polarization outcomes. In order to rationalize these results the level of light polarization is related to the position of the RZ allied with the reflection on the cathode through a simple mathematical model. The values predicted by this model are in qualitative agreement with the experimental ones.     

Full color organic light emitting diodes with laser-patterned optical path-length compensation layer

In this paper, we describe a promising way to fabricate micro-cavity OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) with the concept of “super top emission” with soluble optical path-length compensation layer (OPCL) formed by Laser Induced Thermal Imaging (LITI) technology. OPCL is an additional layer for setting the cavity length corresponding to intrinsic wavelength of emitter. The resultant OLEDs gave a saturated three primary colors (RGB) after transmitting through common color filters by micro-cavity effect. By this approach, we could simplify the fabrication process of full color OLEDs by reducing conventional color patterning step, fine metal mask method. We also suggested the blending system of polymer and small molecule as transfer layer and this could improve the quality of laser patterning by controlling the surface energy adequately. Also, this system could be a solution to LITI problem of chronic contaminant because transferred materials could remain after cleaning process. Devices fabricated by soluble/LITI process showed comparable or even better performances and the device characteristics could enhance by further study of optimizing several parameters such as materials property and laser patterning condition. Also, we expect that this concept could lead to develop the fabrication process of large and high-resolution OLED displays.     

Radiation simulations of top-emitting organic light-emitting devices with two- and three-microcavity structures

We demonstrate the simulation results of the radiation properties from top-emitting organic light-emitting devices (top-emitting OLEDs) with two- and three-microcavity structures based on the general electromagnetic theory. The parameters of the layer thickness and complex refractive index of each layer, the locations and density of the oscillating dipoles, and the emission photoluminescence spectrum are varied to optimize the device performance. In evaluating the deice performances, the output spectrum, the intensity distribution, and the viewing-angle characteristics of a top-emitting OLED are concerned. The simulation results are consistent with the Fabry-Perot cavity equation, which can be used as a guideline for designing a two-cavity top-emitting OLED. In such a design process, the dipole position is chosen first. Then the thicknesses of the whole organic layer, the semitransparent cathode, and the dielectric layer are adjusted for optimizing the device performance. In a three-cavity top-emitting OLED, not only the emission intensity and the viewing angle can be optimized at the same time, but also the emission wavelength can be independently tuned. Besides, the use of a three-cavity structure helps to narrow the spectral width and increase the color purity.     

基于有机p型掺杂电荷产生层制备叠层式白光OLED的研究

基于新型有机p型掺杂的电荷产生层,制备了叠层式白光有机发光二极管(OLED).有机p型掺杂层具有很高的导电率,可以在不影响器件电学特性的前提下,通过改变该层的厚度来优化白光OLED的器件性能,调节器件的光色.与传统白光OLED相比,文章研究的叠层式白光OLED制备工艺简单、电荷产生效率高,可应用于平板显示与固态照明.     

有机发光器件的研究与产业化

有机发光器件(OLED)具有色彩丰富、效率高、亮度强等许多卓越优点，被誉为是新一代的平板显示器。本文回顾了OLED的研究历史，阐述了其发光机理，介绍了其基本结构，总结了其制作工艺。最后展示了近几年来OLED产业化的最新成果，并展望了其应用前景。     

基于纳米压印PET基底的高效柔性有机电致发光器件

为了克服现有的以玻璃为基底、ITO为电极的有机电致发光器件（OLED）的韧性差、对裂纹缺陷敏感等固有缺点,对现有的OLED器件结构进行优化。本文提出了以PET为基底,旋涂高导PEDOT：PSS作为阳极的高效柔性OLED器件结构。并在此基础上,通过纳米压印蛾眼模板将光耦合结构引入器件,提高器件的光取出效率。此绿光FOLED器件在亮度为1 000 cd·m^-2时,功率效率为36.10 lm·W^-1。在此基础上,通过纳米压印引入光耦合结构的柔性OLED器件表现出良好的光电性质,在亮度为1 000 cd·m^-2时,功率效率可达到80.46 lm·W^-1。并且这种绿光柔性OLED器件在以器件半边长为曲率半径180°弯折200次后亮度衰减很少。此种高导PEDOT：PSS电极和柔性PET基底可以成为较好的ITO透明电极和刚性玻璃基底的替代物,为生产可穿戴式设备提供了可能。     

Integration of organic LEDs and amorphous Si TFTs onto flexible andlightweight metal foil substrates

We report the integration of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) and amorphous Si (a-Si) thin-film transistors (TFTs) on both glass, and unbreakable and lightweight thin stainless steel foil substrates. The doped-polymer OLEDs were built following fabrication of driver TFTs in a stacked structure. Due to the opacity of the steel substrate, top-emitting OLED structures were developed. It is shown that the a-Si TFTs provide adequate current levels to drive the OLEDs at video brightness (~100 cd/m²). This work demonstrates that lightweight and rugged TFT backplanes with integrated OLEDs are essential elements for robust and highly portable active-matrix emissive flat-panel displays     

多层白色有机发光器件的结构和性能优化

以红、蓝、绿为基,制备了不同发光层组合次序的有机发光器件,研究了各发光层的顺序及厚度对器件性能的影响,并在此基础上构成了白色有机发光器件.通过改变关键发光层的厚度,来调节不同颜色之间的平衡,从而达到色度很好的向色;由于关键发光层的厚度很薄,因此得到的器件在高电压的色度漂移也很小.优化的白光器件在200 mA/cm2时,电流效率为3.78 cd/A,色坐标为x=0.345,y=0.323.根据激子产生和扩散理论,讨论了器件性能对于各发光层的厚度及激子扩散长度的依赖关系,拟合结果与实验结果吻合.     

有机电致发光器件的热学特性分析

采用COMSOL有限元分析软件的固体传热模块,对有机电致发光器件（OLED）的热学特性进行了仿真,发现器件温度随着输入功率成线性增大。在驱动电流为150 mAcm-2时,仿真结果表明,Alq3发光层的最高温度为82.994 3℃;玻璃基板下表面的最高温是77.392 6℃;器件阴极表面中心区域的最高温度为82.994 2℃,其平均温度为78.445℃。通过改变功能层热传导率、功能层厚度、对流换热系数、表面发射率等参数模拟其对OLED器件热学特性的影响,结果表明,当增加基板的热传导率时,OLED器件温度显著下降而且表面及内部温度梯度大幅减小;提高空气对流换热系数及基板的表面发射率,OLED的温度可以大幅减小。而其他参数则对其影响并不明显。     

Extremely Efficient White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes for General Lighting

Highly power‐efficient white organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) are still challenging to make for applications in high‐quality displays and general lighting due to optical confinement and energy loss during electron‐photon conversion. Here, an efficient white OLED structure is shown that combines deterministic aperiodic nanostructures for broadband quasi‐omnidirectional light extraction and a multilayer energy cascade structure for energy‐efficient photon generation. The external quantum efficiency and power efficiency are raised to 54.6% and 123.4 lm W^?1 at 1000 cd m^?2. An extremely small roll‐off in efficiency at high luminance is also obtained, yielding a striking value of 106.5 lm W^?1 at 5000 cd m^?2. In addition to a substantial increase in efficiency, this device structure simultaneously offers the superiority of angular color stability over the visible wavelength range compared to conventional OLEDs. It is anticipated that these findings could open up new opportunities to promote white OLEDs for commercial applications.     

Design of white tandem organic light-emitting diodes for full-color microdisplay with high current efficiency and high color gamut

Microdisplays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have a small form factor, and this can be a great advantage when applied to augmented reality and virtual reality devices. In addition, a high-resolution microdisplay of 3000 ppi or more can be achieved when applying a white OLED structure and a color filter. However, low luminance is the weakness of an OLED-based microdisplay as compared with other microdisplay technologies. By applying a tandem structure consisting of two separate emission layers, the efficiency of the OLED device is increased, and higher luminance can be achieved. The efficiency and white spectrum of the OLED device are affected by the position of the emitting layer in the tandem structure and calculated via optical simulation. Each white OLED device with optimized efficiency is fabricated according to the position of the emitting layer, and red, green, and blue spectrum and efficiency are confirmed after passing through color filters. The optimized white OLED device with color filters reaches 97.8% of the National Television Standards Committee standard.     

CdS薄层对有机电致发光器件性能的影响

将光电材料硫化镉(CdS)薄层插入到结构为ITO/NPB/Rubrene/NPB/DPVBi/Alq3/LiF/Al的白光有机发光器件(OLED)的Alq3和LiF之间,研究了CdS对OLED性能的影响。结果表明,0.1nm厚的CdS插入Alq3和LiF之间的器件性能最好。器件电压从7 V变化到14 V时,色度均在白光的中心区域;当电压为7V时,器件的最大电流效率为9.09cd/A;当电压为14V时,器件的最大亮度为16 370cd/m2。不加CdS时,当电压为8V时,器件的最大效率为5.16cd/A;当电压为14V时,最大亮度为6 669cd/m2。加CdS的器件比不加CdS的器件最大效率提高了1.76倍,最大亮度提高了2.42倍。     

微细加工技术在有机电致发光器件中的应用

有机电致发光器件是近年来出现的一种新型显示技术。为了实现高分辨率及改善器件的发光性能，多种传统的及新兴的微细加工技术已被应用到该技术中，而且针对该技术还发展了阴极隔离柱等新技术。总结了应用于有机电致发光器件的几种典型微细加工技术，并介绍了它们各自的特点及其在发光器件中的具体应用。     

Emission Area Patterning of Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) via Printed Dielectrics

Solution‐processibility is one of the distinguished traits of organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) compared to existing solid‐state LED technologies. It allows new opportunities which can simplify the fabrication and potentially reduce the cost of manufacturing process. Emission area patterning is one of the crucial fabrication steps and it usually involves subtractive methods, such as photolithography or etching. Here, printing techniques are used to pattern the emission area of blade‐coated OLED layers. The print qualities of a number of printing schemes are characterized and compared. Spray coating and screen printing are used to deposit dielectrics with desired patterns on the OLED layers. At luminance of 1000 cd m⁻² the OLEDs patterned using spray‐coated and screen‐printed dielectric show current density of 8.2 and 10.1 mA cm⁻², external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 2.1% and 2.1%, and luminous efficacy of 5.5 and 6.3 lm W⁻¹, respectively. The OLED characteristics and features of each printing scheme in depositing the dielectric layer are discussed. The printing methods are further applied to demonstrate displays with complex shapes and a seven‐segment display.