Versatile surface plasmon resonance of carbon-dot-supported silver nanoparticles in polymer optoelectronic devices

Hyosung Choi; Seo Jin Ko; Yuri Choi; Piljae Joo; Taehyo Kim; Bo Ram Lee; Jae Woo Jung; Hee Joo Choi; Myoungsik Cha; Jong Ryul Jeong; In Wook Hwang; Myoung Hoon Song; Byeong Su Kim; Jin Young Kim

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.181

Versatile surface plasmon resonance of carbon-dot-supported silver nanoparticles in polymer optoelectronic devices

Hyosung Choi, Seo Jin Ko, Yuri Choi, Piljae Joo, Taehyo Kim, Bo Ram Lee, Jae Woo Jung, Hee Joo Choi, Myoungsik Cha, Jong Ryul Jeong, In Wook Hwang, Myoung Hoon Song, Byeong Su Kim, Jin Young Kim

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Abstract

The coupling of surface plasmons and excitons in organic materials can improve the performance of organic optoelectronic devices. Here, we prepare carbon-dot-supported silver nanoparticles (CD-Ag nanoparticles) using the carbon dots both as a reducing agent and a template to fabricate solution-processable polymer light-emitting diodes and polymer solar cells. The surface plasmon resonance effect of CD-Ag nanoparticles allows significant radiative emission and additional light absorption, leading to remarkably enhanced current efficiency of 27.16 cd A -1 and a luminous efficiency of 18.54 lm W -1 in polymer light-emitting diodes as well as a power conversion efficiency of 8.31% and an internal quantum efficiency of 99% in polymer solar cells compared with control devices (current efficiency = 11.65 cd A -1 and luminous efficiency = 6.33 lm W -1 in polymer light-emitting diodes; power conversion efficiency = 7.53% and internal quantum efficiency = 91% in polymer solar cells). These results demonstrate that CD-Ag nanoparticles constitute a versatile and effective route for achieving high-performance polymer optoelectronic devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	732-738
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Photonics
Volume	7
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.181
Publication status	Published - 2013 Sept

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This research was supported by the WCU (World Class University) programme through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (R31-2008-000-20012-0), the National Research Foundation of Korea (grant 2009-0093020), the Korea Healthcare technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Korea (A091047), and an International Cooperation of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea Government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (2012T100100740). The authors thank H-J. Shin for performing kelvin probe force microscopy for work function measurements.

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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