Non-isotropic emitter orientation and its implications for efficiency analysis of organic light-emitting diodes

Tobias D. Schmidt; Michael Flämmich; Bert J. Scholz; Dirk Michaelis; Christian Mayr; Norbert Danz; Wolfgang Brütting

doi:10.1117/12.921537

30 April 2012 Non-isotropic emitter orientation and its implications for efficiency analysis of organic light-emitting diodes

Tobias D. Schmidt, Michael Flämmich, Bert J. Scholz, Dirk Michaelis, Christian Mayr, Norbert Danz, Wolfgang Brütting

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Proceedings Volume 8435, Organic Photonics V; 843513 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.921537
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

The efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is limited since only a small fraction of the consumed electrical power is converted into visible light that is finally extracted to air. Most of the efficiency loss is caused by suboptimal radiative quantum efficiency (RQE) of the emitting guest-host system and by dissipating a huge part of the radiated energy to optical modes such as surface plasmons or waveguided modes, which cannot easily be extracted by common outcoupling structures. In order to increase the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of OLEDs new approaches are needed. Recent studies show that the EQE can be enhanced considerably by horizontally oriented emitters, a feature that is well known for fluorescent emitters and has lately been demonstrated in phosphorescent state-of-the-art OLEDs. By means of optical simulations we investigated the influence of non-isotropic emitter orientation on the effective RQE and the outcoupling factor. We show that in order to achieve a consistent efficiency analysis it is indispensable to account for possible deviations from isotropy. Ignoring these orientation effects leads to significant misinterpretation of the RQE and other factors, which determine the external quantum efficiency of a device. Furthermore, we demonstrate the huge potential for efficiency enhancement of mainly parallel dipole emitter orientation in both fluorescent and phosphorescent OLEDs.

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Tobias D. Schmidt, Michael Flämmich, Bert J. Scholz, Dirk Michaelis, Christian Mayr, Norbert Danz, and Wolfgang Brütting "Non-isotropic emitter orientation and its implications for efficiency analysis of organic light-emitting diodes", Proc. SPIE 8435, Organic Photonics V, 843513 (30 April 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.921537

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