Direct monitoring of bias-dependent variations in the exciton formation ratio of working organic light emitting diodes.

ABSTRACT: In typical operation of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), excitons are assumed to generate with a ratio of 1:3 for singlet and triplet excitons, respectively, based on a simple spin statistics model. This assumption has been used in designing efficient OLEDs. Despite the larger generation ratio of triplet excitons, physical properties of fluorescent OLEDs are usually evaluated only through the electroluminescence (EL) intensity from singlets and the behaviors of triplets during the LED operation are virtually black-boxed, because the triplets are mostly non-emissive. Here, we employ transient spectroscopy combined with LED-operation for directly monitoring the non-emissive triplets of working OLEDs. The spectroscopic techniques are performed simultaneously with EL- and current measure

SUBMITTER: Takahashi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614446 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature