Abstract
Here we report the effect of introducing nickel oxide (NiO) on the performance of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) based on small molecules. For the purpose of aligning the NiO deposition with the conventional OLED process, we employed a thermal evaporation method using the NiO powders. To understand the influence of the NiO introduction, we fabricated two types of devices: (1) OLED with the NiO nanolayer and (2) OLED with the NiO-doped hole transport layer. Results show that the NiO introduction improved the hole injection in both types of OLED. However, the device with the NiO nanolayer exhibited greatly improved efficiency, whereas the efficiency was significantly lowered for the device with the NiO-doped hole transport layer.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 716-718 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 25 Sep 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the DGIST Basic Research Program of the MEST (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Korea Government). Y.K. thanks for the partial financial support by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant ( R01-2007-000-10836-0 ).
Keywords
- Hole injection
- Nanolayer
- NiO
- OLED
- Thermal evaporation