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Amoah S, Fu X, Yin S, Dong Q, Dong C, So F. Curved Mirror Arrays for Light Extraction in Top-Emitting Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:9377-9385. [PMID: 35166104 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c21128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
The light outcoupling efficiency of a top-emitting organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is only about 20%, and the majority of the light is trapped in the waveguide modes and surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes. Extracting the trapped modes can reduce the device power consumption and improve the operating lifetime. In this study, we demonstrate a top-emitting OLED structure with a dielectric spacer to suppress the SPP mode and with a patterned back mirror to extract the waveguide modes. We examine and compare several curved mirror arrays and conclude that a micromirror array (μMA) can efficiently extract the waveguide modes while minimizing the absorption loss. The optimized μMA device with a semi-transparent top electrode shows a 36% external quantum efficiency, 2 times higher than the referenced device. This optical design can be easily incorporated into a top-emitting device and has a great potential for displays and lighting applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephen Amoah
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7907, United States
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Zhang Y, Biswas R. High Light Outcoupling Efficiency from Periodically Corrugated OLEDs. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:9291-9301. [PMID: 33842798 PMCID: PMC8028165 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) suffer from poor light outcoupling efficiency (ηout < 20%) due to large internal waveguiding in the high-index layers/substrate, and plasmonic losses at the metal cathode interface. A promising approach to enhance light outcoupling is to utilize internal periodic corrugations that can diffract waveguided and plasmonic modes back to the air cone. Although corrugations can strongly diffract trapped modes, the optimal geometry of corrugations and limits to ηout are not well-established. We develop a general rigorous scattering matrix theory for light emission from corrugated OLEDs, by solving Maxwell's equations in Fourier space, incorporating the environment-induced modification of the optical emission rate (Purcell effect). We computationally obtain the spectrally emissive power inside and outside the OLED. We find conformally corrugated OLEDs, where all OLED interfaces are conformal with a photonic crystal substrate, having triangular lattice symmetry, exhibit high light outcoupling ηout ∼60-65%, and an enhancement factor exceeding 3 for optimal pitch values between 1 and 2.5 μm. Waveguided and surface plasmon modes are strongly diffracted to the air cone through first-order diffraction. ηout is insensitive to corrugation heights larger than 100 nm. There is a gradual roll-off in ηout for a larger pitch and sharper decreases for small pitch values. Plasmonic losses remain below 10% for all corrugation pitch values. Our predicted OLED designs provide a pathway for achieving very high light outcoupling over the full optical spectrum that can advance organic optoelectronic science and solid-state lighting.
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- Yu Zhang
- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Microelectronics Research
Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Microelectronics Research
Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
- Ames
Laboratory and Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Jeong JC, Woo KY, Cho H, Cho YH, Cho NS, Yang SY, Moon J. Extracting internal modes of top emission organic light emitting diodes by using internal random mesoscopic wrinkles. J IND ENG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2021.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Fu X, Mehta Y, Chen YA, Lei L, Zhu L, Barange N, Dong Q, Yin S, Mendes J, He S, Gogusetti R, Chang CH, So F. Directional Polarized Light Emission from Thin-Film Light-Emitting Diodes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2006801. [PMID: 33511698 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with directional and polarized light emission have many photonic applications, and beam shaping of these devices is fundamentally challenging because they are Lambertian light sources. In this work, using organic and perovskite LEDs (PeLEDs) for demonstrations, by selectively diffracting the transverse electric (TE) waveguide mode while suppressing other optical modes in a nanostructured LED, the authors first demonstrate highly directional light emission from a full-area organic LED with a small divergence angle less than 3° and a TE to transverse magnetic (TM) polarization extinction ratio of 13. The highly selective diffraction of only the TE waveguide mode is possible due to the planarization of the device stack by thermal evaporation and solution processing. Using this strategy, directional and polarized emission from a perovskite LED having a current efficiency 2.6 times compared to the reference planar device is further demonstrated. This large enhancement in efficiency in the PeLED is attributed to a larger contribution from the TE waveguide mode resulting from the high refractive index in perovskite materials.
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- Xiangyu Fu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA
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Fu X, Chen YA, Shin DH, Mehta Y, Chen IT, Barange N, Zhu L, Amoah S, Chang CH, So F. Recovering cavity effects in corrugated organic light emitting diodes. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:32214-32225. [PMID: 33115183 DOI: 10.1364/oe.404412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Cavity effects play an important role in determining the out-coupling efficiency of an OLED. By fabricating OLEDs on corrugated substrates, the waveguide and SPP modes can be extracted by diffraction. However, corrugation does not always lead to an enhancement in out-coupling efficiency due to the reduction of the electrode reflectance and hence the cavity effects. Based on the results of our rigorous couple-wave analysis (RCWA) simulation, we found that the cavity effects can be partially recovered using a low index Teflon layer inserted between the ITO anode and the substrate due to the enhancement of the reflectance of the corrugated electrodes. To verify the simulation results, we fabricated corrugated OLEDs having a low-index Teflon interlayer with an EQE of 36%, which is 29% higher than an optimized planar OLED. By experimentally measuring the OLED air mode dispersion, we confirm the cavity emission of a corrugated OLED is enhanced by the low index layer.
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Song J, Lee H, Jeong EG, Choi KC, Yoo S. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Pushing Toward the Limits and Beyond. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1907539. [PMID: 32142190 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201907539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2019] [Revised: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are established as a mainstream light source for display applications and can now be found in a plethora of consumer electronic devices used daily. This success can be attributed to the rich luminescent properties of organic materials, but efficiency enhancement made over the last few decades has also played a significant role in making OLEDs a practically viable technology. This report summarizes the efforts made so far to improve the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of OLEDs and discusses what should further be done to push toward the ultimate efficiency that can be offered by OLEDs. The study indicates that EQE close to 58% and 80% can be within reach without and with additional light extraction structures, respectively, with an optimal combination of cavity engineering, low-index transport layers, and horizontal dipole orientation. In addition, recent endeavors to identify possible applications of OLEDs beyond displays are presented with emphasis on their potential in wearable healthcare, such as OLED-based pulse oximetry as well as phototherapeutic applications based on body-attachable flexible OLED patches. OLEDs with fabric-like form factors and washable encapsulation strategies are also introduced as technologies essential to the success of OLED-based wearable electronics.
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- Jinouk Song
- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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Liang H, Hsu HC, Wu J, He X, Wei MK, Chiu TL, Lin CF, Lee JH, Wang J. Corrugated organic light-emitting diodes to effectively extract internal modes. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:A372-A384. [PMID: 31052889 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.00a372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report a corrugated structure to effectively extract the surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) and waveguiding modes in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). This structure is formed by nano-imprint of blazed gratings. To study the optimum extraction condition in terms of grating pitches, we compare the light extraction efficiency of corrugated OLEDs with three kinds of pitches, showing a 42.00% external quantum efficiency (EQE) enhancement ratio with this internal structure. Due to the transfer of SPP and waveguiding modes into substrate mode, the EQE enhancement ratio can be further pushed to 103.02% by attaching a macrolens. The simulation verifies the experimental results and shows the extraction mechanism of the corrugated structure towards transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) waves. We foresee that this method is able to enhance the optical efficiency of devices for both mass-production OLED lighting and display in a cost-effective way.
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Park YS, Han KH, Kim J, Cho DH, Lee J, Han Y, Lim JT, Cho NS, Yu B, Lee JI, Kim JJ. Crystallization-assisted nano-lens array fabrication for highly efficient and color stable organic light emitting diodes. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:230-236. [PMID: 27906406 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr07798f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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To date, all deposition equipment has been developed to produce planar films. Thus lens arrays with a lens diameter of <1 mm have been manufactured by combining deposition with other technologies, such as masks, surface treatment, molding etc. Furthermore, a nano-lens array (NLA) with a sufficiently small lens diameter (<1 μm) is necessary to avoid image quality degradation in high resolution displays. In this study, an organic NLA made using a conventional deposition technique - without combining with other techniques - is reported. Very interestingly, grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GI-SAXS) experiments indicate that the NLA is formed by the crystallization of organic molecules and the resulting increase in surface tension. The lens diameter can be tuned for use with any kind of light by controlling the process parameters. As an example of their potential applications, we use NLAs as a light extraction film for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The NLA is integrated by directly depositing it on the top electrode of a collection of OLEDs. This is a dry process, meaning that it is fully compatible with the current OLED production process. Devices with NLAs exhibited a light extraction efficiency 1.5 times higher than devices without, which corresponds well with simulation results. The simulations show that this high efficiency is due to the reduction of the guided modes by scattering at the NLA. The NLAs also reduce image blurring, indicating that they increase color stability.
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- Young-Sam Park
- Flexible Information Device Research Section, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, 34129, Republic of Korea.
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Shim YS, Hwang JH, Park CH, Jung SG, Park YW, Ju BK. An extremely low-index photonic crystal layer for enhanced light extraction from organic light-emitting diodes. NANOSCALE 2016; 8:4113-4120. [PMID: 26822966 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr07312j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This paper reports organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with improved light extraction fabricated by embedding an extremely low-index photonic crystal (LIPC) layer. The LIPC layer increases the optical efficiency through the reduced wave-guide mode between the substrate and anode both by increased light resonance and by a strengthened diffraction effect from an extremely low-refractive-index medium, specifically a line structure composed of a vacuum gap. As a result, the current efficiency and power efficiency of the LIPC-OLEDs are 1.51 and 1.93 times higher, respectively, than the reference device at 1000 cd m(-2). Because most of the light extraction is significant, especially in the forward direction, at the specific wavelengths satisfying the Bragg's diffraction equation, it is possible to calculate the anomalous spectrum of the LIPC-OLED through the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method.
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- Yong Sub Shim
- Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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- Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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- Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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- Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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- The Institute of High Technology Materials and Devices, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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- Display and Nanosystem Laboratory, College of Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea.
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Jiao B, Yu Y, Dai Y, Hou X, Wu Z. Improvement of light extraction in organic light-emitting diodes using a corrugated microcavity. OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 23:4055-4064. [PMID: 25836444 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.004055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Based on the phase separation effect in the film formation process of Polystyrene and Poly(methyl methacrylate) blend solution, bottom-emitting organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with corrugated microcavity was demonstrated. This device exhibited high efficiency, broad spectra and Lambertian angular emission. Compared with the traditional bottom-emitting OLEDs with ITO anode and the planar microcavity OLEDs, about 57% and 41% enhancement for external quantum efficiency was achieved in this corrugated microcavity OLEDs respectively. This improvement can be understood by the scattering effect of the quasi-periodic characteristic of this corrugated microcavity which reduces the optical loss at surface plasmon polariton modes and wave-guided modes. This work provides a simple as well as efficienct method to recover trapped light in OLEDs, which will benefit the low cost fabrication process.
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Park WY, Kwon Y, Lee C, Whang KW. Light outcoupling enhancement from top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes made on a nano-sized stochastic texture surface. OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 22 Suppl 7:A1687-A1694. [PMID: 25607482 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.0a1687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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An effective method for enhancing the light outcoupling efficiency from top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes (TEOLEDs) with a nano-sized stochastic texture surface (NSTS) is suggested. The broadly distributed pitch and the randomly sized of islands in the NSTS enable the photons that are otherwise trapped to be emitted over the broad emission wavelength range. The NSTS-embedded TEOLEDs have wide angular-dependent emission characteristics and an enhanced external quantum efficiency (EQE). Theoretical and full-wave optical calculations were performed to understand the mechanisms of the efficiency enhancement. Optimized TEOLEDs achieved a 32% EQE enhancement compared with the reference devices without the NSTS.
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Brückner R, Lyssenko VG, Hofmann S, Leo K. Lasing of Tamm states in highly efficient organic devices based on small-molecule organic semiconductors. Faraday Discuss 2014; 174:183-201. [DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00094c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We discuss approaches to increase the light outcoupling efficiency in organic microcavity (MC) lasers and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). We find that the introduction of metals into the cavities leads to additional Tamm-plasmon polariton modes, while the corrugation of metal contacts, such as perforated μ-size holes or a periodic array of metal stripes, leads to 2D confinement of the cavity modes, which in turn reduces the lasing threshold in MCs. Furthermore, we elucidate light loss mechanisms in OLEDs and reveal how external dielectric layers and periodic gratings can be used to enhance outcoupling from the OLED cavity.
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- R. Brückner
- Institut für Angewandte Photophysik
- TU Dresden
- 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Angewandte Photophysik
- TU Dresden
- 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Angewandte Photophysik
- TU Dresden
- 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Angewandte Photophysik
- TU Dresden
- 01069 Dresden, Germany
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