White organic light emitting diodes with enhanced internal and external outcoupling for ultra-efficient light extraction and Lambertian emission

White organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) suffer from poor outcoupling efficiencies. The use of Bragg-gratings to enhance the outcoupling efficiency is very promising for light extraction in OLEDs, but such periodic structures can lead to angular or spectral dependencies in the devices. Here we p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2012-11, Vol.20 Suppl 6 (S6), p.A932-A940
Hauptverfasser: Bocksrocker, Tobias, Preinfalk, Jan Benedikt, Asche-Tauscher, Julian, Pargner, Andreas, Eschenbaum, Carsten, Maier-Flaig, Florian, Lemme, Uli
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:White organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) suffer from poor outcoupling efficiencies. The use of Bragg-gratings to enhance the outcoupling efficiency is very promising for light extraction in OLEDs, but such periodic structures can lead to angular or spectral dependencies in the devices. Here we present a method which combines highly efficient outcoupling by a TiO(2)-Bragg-grating leading to a 104% efficiency enhancement and an additional high quality microlens diffusor at the substrate/air interface. With the addition of this diffusor, we achieved not only a uniform white emission, but also further increased the already improved device efficiency by another 94% leading to an overall enhancement factor of about 4.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.20.00A932