High efficient plastic substrate polymer white light emitting diode

Abstract

White polymer light emitting diode (PLED) has attracted the interest of researchers by the advantage of having low cost, flexible light sources. One of the major advantages of PLED is that it can be able to fabricate in flexible plastic substrate instead of glass substrate. Generally PLED’s requires a substrate of high refractive index to enhance the amount of trapped light in the device, but the refractive index of flexible plastic substrate is low (n < 1.6). In this paper, we present a white PLED on a flexible plastic substrate with a new enhancement method. In which the semi-transparent gold layer is sandwiched between the layers of tantalum oxide and molybdenum oxide which does not require a high refractive index substrate. Using this design, the extraction efficiency of the device is increased from 1.5 to 2.1 cw compared to that of the device using glass substrate.