Designing an electron-transport layer for highly efficient, reliable, and solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes

Jin Hoon Kim; Jin Woo Park

doi:10.1039/c7tc00488e

Designing an electron-transport layer for highly efficient, reliable, and solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes

Jin Hoon Kim, Jin Woo Park

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We present solution-processable electron-transport layers (ETL) with highly enhanced electron-injection and electron-transport properties and resistance to oxygen and moisture for solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). We selected polyethyleneimine ethoxylated (PEIE) as the ETL and Cs₂CO₃, CsF, and tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum (Alq₃) as n-type dopants. Compared with OLEDs with undoped PEIE as the ETL, the OLEDs with doped PEIE (d-PEIE) showed significantly improved luminance, efficiency, and lifetimes. These improvements are attributed to d-PEIE decreasing the work function of the Al metal cathode, as shown by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) analysis, and improving the gas and moisture resistance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3097-3106
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume	5
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc00488e
Publication status	Published - 2017

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This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number 2015R1D1A1A01061340) and the Joint Program for Samsung Electronics-Yonsei University.

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