Organic Led: A Novel Light Source
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ORGANIC LED
A NOVEL LIGHT SOURCE
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Electro-luminescence is light emission from a solid Already some of the companies released Cell Phones
through which an electric current is passed. OLEDs are and PDA’s with bright OLED technology for color full
more energy-efficient than incandescent lamps. The displays.
luminous efficiency of light bulbs is about 13 - 20 lm/W
but the latest experimental green emitting OLEDs 3. Working Principle & Structural
already have luminous efficiency of 76 lm/W, though at
low luminance. The development is on track for OLEDs
Aspects:
to effectively compete even with fluorescent lamps, Organic Light Emitting Diodes
which have the luminous efficiency of 50 - 100 lm/W. (OLEDs) are thin-film multi-layer devices
One big advantage of OLEDs is the ability to tune the consisting of a substrate foil, film or plate (rigid or
light emission to any desired color, and any shade of flexible), an electrode layer, layers of active
color or intensity, including white. Achieving the high materials, a counter electrode layer, and a
Color Rendition Index (CRI) near 100 (the ability to
protective barrier layer At least one of the
simulate the most pleasing white color, sunlight), is
electrodes must be transparent to light.
already within the reach of OLEDs. Another advantage
of OLEDs is that they are current-driven devices, where
brightness can be varied over a very wide dynamic
range and they operate uniformly, without flicker.
CRT is still continuing as top technology
in displays to produce economically best displays. The
first best look of it is its Cost. But the main problems
with it are its bulkiness, Difficulties in Extending to
Large area displays as per construction. Even though
Liquid Crystal Displays have solved one of problem i.e.
size, but it is not economical. So in this present scenario
the need for a new technology with both these features Fig.1. The typical structure of the OLED device.
combined leaded to invention of OLED.OLED which is The number of layers may vary, as described.
The OLEDs operate in the following
a thin, flexible, Bright LED with self luminance which
manner: Voltage bias is applied on the electrodes, the
can be used as a display device. The main drawback of
voltages are low, from 2.5 to ~ 20 V, but the active
LCD display is its Less viewing angle and highly
layers are so thin (~10Å to 100nm) that the electric
temperature depending which moves us towards a new
fields in the active layers are very high, of the order of
technology. Thus OLED promises for faithful
105 – 107 V/cm. These high, near-breakdown electric
replacement of current technology with added flavors
fields support injection of charges across the electrode /
like Less Power Consumption and Self Luminance .Both
active layers interfaces. Holes are injected from the
Active matrix TFT’s and Passive matrix Technologies
anode, which is typically transparent, and electrons are
are used for display and addressing purposes for high
injected from the cathode. The injected charges migrate
speed display of moving pictures and faster response.
against each other in the opposite directions, and
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eventually meet and recombine. Recombination energy consequently, low device efficiency, would make the
is released and the molecule or a polymer segment in application of OLEDs as sources of light extremely
which the recombination occurs, reaches an exited state. difficult. But by using phosphorescent dopants, the
Excitons may migrate from molecule to molecule. energy from all the triplet states could be harnessed as
Eventually, some molecules or a polymer segments light (phosphorescence). The energy is transferred from
release the energy as photons or heat. It is desirable that the triplet excitons to the dopant molecules. However,
all the excess excitation energy is released as photons not only excitons in the triplet states are utilized; these
(light). dopants, typically containing heavy atoms such as Ir or
The materials that are used to bring the Pt, facilitate the forbidden "intersystem crossing" from
charges to the recombination sites are usually the singlets to the triplet states.
(but not always) poor photon emitters (most of the The onset voltage, sometimes as low as 2.4
excitation energy is released as heat). Therefore, suitable V is the voltage at which the current begins to flow and
dopants are added, which first transfer the energy from enough hole-electron pairs recombine to generate light
visible by naked eye. The current and the corresponding
light intensity increase with increasing the drive voltage.
the original excitons, and release the energy more Two types of materials are needed to bring the charges
efficiently as photons. In OLEDs, approximately 25% of to the recombination sites: hole transport polymers or
the excisions are in the singlet states and 75% in the small molecules, and electron transport polymers or
triplet states. Emission of photons from the singlet states
(fluorescence), in most cases facilitated by fluorescent
dopants, was believed to be the only applicable form of
energy release, thus limiting the Internal Quantum
Efficiency (IQE) of OLEDs to the maximum of 25%.
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Fig.3 Energy levels across the simplest organic and oxygen-free conditions and all will require class-10
clean room. The cost consequence of such complexity is
light emitting diode composed of a single
high. The deposition of each layer negatively impacts
organic layer between two injecting electrodes
the manufacturing yield of the final device. The number
with a forward bias between anode and cathode.
of
For high efficiency, the top metal electrode
(cathode) must have the lowest possible work
function.
Some add a "buffer" layer, which may
serve the same purpose. Injection of holes is in most
cases energetically easier than injection of electrons.
This may result in the injection of excess of holes,
which could drift to the cathode without meeting
electrons. The excessive current would be wasteful and
would heat the device. Usually, the electron transport
layers depends primarily on type of materials used.
layer acts as a hole blocker, but in some cases a hole-
blocking layer is added between the electron and hole
Fig. 4 Energy band diagram for an organic light
transport layers to prevent the escape of holes to the
emitting diode with a hole (HTL) and electron
cathode. This has an additional benefit: the excess holes
accumulate near the blocking layer and the resulting (ETL) transport layer. In this case,
strong electric field across the cathode-electron recombination leading to light emission occurs
transporter interface enhances injection of electrons to at the hetero junction between the two organic
the system. This automatically balances the injection materials.
rates of both charge carriers, and maximizes 4. Polymeric OLED devices:
recombination. In some cases, exciton blocking layers
Polymeric OLED devices have usually
are added to prevent excitons to reach the electrodes and
fewer layers. The electroactive polymers may serve
decay non-radiatively. In other cases, a separate
multiple functions: as both electron and hole transport
emission layer is sandwiched between the electron
polymers and light emission polymers, even though
transport and hole transport layer.
dopant emitters can be used to tune the color. In some
In white-color emitting devices there may
cases, very thin layers of p-doped and n-doped semi-
be three separate emission layers, each emitting a
conducting polymers are sandwiched between the
different color. So today's devices may have a total of 7
transport polymers and the cathode and anode,
- 9 layers - including electrodes, deposited by different
respectively, to facilitate charge injection. The active
techniques (sputtering, vapor deposition, solvent
polymers and the injection layers are solution-coatable,
coating, etc). In spite of the large number of layers the
but the electrodes are deposited by different techniques
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conjugated double bonds or aromatic rings, and pendant usual manner with sequential evaporation of the
groups, which determine the emission characteristics. constituents in a multi-source vacuum chamber. The
The polymers are members of the polyphenylene substrates are Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) glasses with a
vinylene family, polyfluorene homo- and copolymers sheet resistance of 20-30Ω. The ITO glass substrates are
and a new class of polyspiro emitters. cleaned by ultrasonic assisted detergent, deionized water
-
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advantages in manufacturing simplicity. This simplicity Lighting panels for illumination of residential and
is somewhat offset by additional complexity required in commercial buildings
the drive circuit, which must be capable of controlling Lighting panels for advertising boards, large signs, etc.
color while simultaneously controlling brightness and Ultra-lightweight, wall-size television monitors
grey scale. Office windows, walls and partitions that double as
computer screens
9. Applications of OLEDs: Color-changing lighting panels and light walls for home
and office, etc.
I. Readily achieved by OLEDs (2002 – 2005) (No
Large displays, "smart panels"
Breakthrough Required):
III. Factors Affecting Penetration Into the General
1. Monochrome applications
Lighting Market :
• Small monochrome displays for hand held
1. Accelerating factors
electronic devices (cell phones, PDAs, digital
Large area coatings (low cost). Light source can be
cameras, GPS receivers etc.) are already in the
shaped to product.
marketplace.
Any type of substrates from rigid such as metal, plastic,
• Niche applications such as head-mounted
glass, ceramic, etc., to flexible (plastic films, rolls,
displays.
loops, foils, filaments, fabrics, etc.).
2. Two or multicolor applications
High luminous efficiency (eventually).
• Car electronics (radios, GPS displays, maps,
Unlimited choices of color for different applications and
warning lights, etc.)
types of lighting.
• Instrument electronics, heads-up
Variable pixel size from displays to large areas. No
instrumentation for aircraft and automobiles.
upper limit to pixel size.
• Rugged PDAs, wrist-mounted, etc. Some are
Low voltage operation.
already on the market.
Fast switching speed for "intelligent" lighting.
3. Full color applications
• LCD backlights (white light) Light weight.
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• Uniformity of large area lighting sources. The technological issues facing OLEDs can be
• Nonexistent infrastructure summarized into the four main categories:
very quickly. The operating voltages can be as low as conquer a large portion of the micro display market.
the desired 2.6 - 4 V but the luminance is still too low Their higher efficiency and lower weight will make
under those voltages. For white light and the desired them quite competitive with LCD displays, the currently
luminance, the passing electric currents are still too favorite technology. There are no fundamental obstacles
high, and the power conversion efficiencies are low. The for OLEDs to become a technology of choice for
useful lifetime of white-light emitting devices with the general lighting. However, there still exist a number of
desired luminance needs to be increased by more than "incremental" roadblocks that have to be overcome,
one order of magnitude. The surface area of the largest many of which may require inventions or major
devices made to date is only of the order of a couple of breakthroughs, and most of these roadblocks are
square inches, while the illumination panels will have to materials related. The rate of progress will depend on
cover several square feet. The uniformity of these the success in designing and synthesis of novel high
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performance, stable materials components of OLED 13. Definitions of some used Terms:
devices to replace those that are still deficient. Internal quantum efficiency (ηint or IQE) is the
number of photons generated inside the device per
number of injected hole – electron pairs. A large fraction
12. References:
of generated photons stays trapped and absorbed inside
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Lumen (lm) is a unit of luminous flux and is defined as
the luminous flux emitted in a solid angle of one
steradian by a uniform point source of intensity of 1
candela. 1 lm = 1 cd x steradian
steradian (sr) is defined as the solid angle (Ω)
subtended at the vertex by a spherical sector whose
spherical part (S) of the surface is equal to the square of
the radius of the sphere R:
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Vijayawada,
Date: 14-2-2005
To
The Convener,
Student paper contest,
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,
Vijayawada.
Sir,
We Divakar.V and N.L.K.Chaitanya of 3/4 B.Tech ECE interested in presenting a paper on
“ORGANIC LED – A Novel Light Source” in your esteemed institute.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
`
Divakar V.
Chaitanya.N.L.K
3/4 B.Tech [ECE],
V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College,
Vijayawada.
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BIO - DATA
Discipline : ECE
Address : V. Divakar,
C/o parasuramireddy,
Opp Carmel church,
Kanuru, vijayawada-520007.
E-Mail : [email protected]
Certificate
I hereby certify that Divakar.V and N.L.K.Chaitanya are bonafied students of our college and the
above details are correct.
Forwarded by,
Dr.P.V.Subbaiah,
Head of the Department, ECE,
V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College,
Vijayawada.
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