Abstract
The organic semiconductor materials which form Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) surface have been synthesized and used in Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) applications. The synthesized molecules are bonded chemically to the hydrophilic and rough ITO surface and formed a new hydrophobic and smother surface of ITO by the effect of SAM formation. The synthesized SAM molecule is 4″, 4″″-[biphenyl-4,4″-diylbis(phenylimino)]dibiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (MZ-187) that contains carboxylic acid head group to bond to ITO surface. The formation on ITO surface is analyzed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Two configurations, ITO/SAM(MZ-187)/HTL/EML/LiF/Al (MZ187-OLED) and ITO/HTL/EML/LiF/Al (bare-OLED), are fabricated to investigate the effect of SAM layer on the performance of the OLED device. Current–voltage (I–V) characterization of OLED devices are carried out and the luminescence of the devices are measured by integrating sphere under nitrogen gas in a glow box system. The quantum efficiency is calculated to determine how to affects the SAM layers on OLEDs performance. As a consequence, it is determined that the OLED device containing MZ-187 SAM layer, a similar structure with N,N′-bis(3-methylphenyl)-N,N′-diphenylbenzidine (TPD), is exhibited a better OLED performance compare to the device without SAM layer.
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