Hybrid nanostructured plasmonic electrodes for flexible organic light-emitting diodes.

Nanotechnology

School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Applications, Ministry of Education, Shanghai University, 200072, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Published: September 2020

Improved performance in flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is demonstrated by using a hybrid nanostructured plasmonic electrode consisting of silver nanowires (AgNWs) decorated with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and covered by exfoliated graphene sheets. Such all-solution processed electrodes show high optical transparency and electrical conductivity. When integrated in an OLED with super yellow polyphenylene vinylene as the emissive layer, the plasmon coupling of the NW-NP hybrid plasmonic system is found to significantly enhance the fluorescence, demonstrated by both simulations and photoluminescence measurements, leading to a current efficiency of 11.61 cd A and a maximum luminance of 20 008 cd m in OLEDs. Stress studies reveal a superior mechanical flexibility to the commercial indium-tin-oxide (ITO) counterparts, due to the incorporation of exfoliated graphene sheets. Our results show that these hybrid nanostructured plasmonic electrodes can be applied as an effective alternative to ITO for use in high-performance flexible OLEDs.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab94dfDOI Listing

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