Strong interfacial dipole formation with thermal evaporation of lithium cobalt oxide for efficient electron injections

Hyunbok Lee; Soohyung Park; Jeihyun Lee; Younjoo Lee; Dongguen Shin; Kwangho Jeong; Yeonjin Yi

doi:10.1063/1.4789394

Strong interfacial dipole formation with thermal evaporation of lithium cobalt oxide for efficient electron injections

Hyunbok Lee, Soohyung Park, Jeihyun Lee, Younjoo Lee, Dongguen Shin, Kwangho Jeong, Yeonjin Yi

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Abstract

We investigated the electronic structures at the interface of Al/lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO₂)/tris(8-hydoxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq ₃) to elucidate the origin of the electron injection enhancement with the insertion of the LiCoO₂ layer in organic light-emitting devices using in situ photoelectron spectroscopy experiments. We discovered that LiCoO₂ was decomposed into lithium oxide (Li₂O) by thermal evaporation, and only Li₂O was deposited on the desired substrate. Li₂O forms a strong interfacial dipole, which reduces the surface potential on Alq₃ due to its extremely low work function. As a result, the electron injection barrier was dramatically decreased by the Li ₂O layer. Furthermore, there is no strong chemical interaction at the interface of Al/Li₂O/Alq₃; hence, this would contribute to extend the device lifetime.

Original language	English
Article number	033302
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789394
Publication status	Published - 2013 Jan 21

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This work was supported by the Yonsei University Research Fund of 2012 and Samsung Display Company, a research project of the National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2012-0002303).

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