Abstract

Styrene and quinoline groups are commonly incorporated into the organic fluorescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, a type of small molecule derived from styrene and quinoline, with a chemical structure of 2,2'-(2,5-dimethoxy-1,4-phylenedivinylene)bis-8- acetoxyquinoline (MPV-AQ), is employed as the emitter and electron transporting material in the OLEDs, and its optoelectronic characteristics such as charge-carrier injection, transporting and recombination are investigated by the steady-state and transient technologies. It is found that the electron injection from the cathode into the MPV-AQ layer shows the Fowler-Nordheim (FN) tunneling characteristic in the N,N'-di(naphthalene-1-yl)-N,N'-diphenyl-benzidine (NPB)/MPV-AQ bilayer OLED, which is different from the Richardson-Schottky (RS) thermionic emission in the electron-only device based on the MPV-AQ single-layer. The difference in electron injection is attributed to the bend of energy bands of MPV-AQ in the NPB/MPV-AQ device, which can be caused by the charge accumulation at the NPB/MPV-AQ interface. The accumulated charges should mainly be the holes on the side of NPB layer because the electron mobility of MPV-AQ is much lower than the hole mobility of NPB. Owing to the bending of lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of MPV-AQ, the tunneling distance for electrons is significantly reduced, which is favorable for the FN tunneling. The barrier height for electron injection is calculated to be 0.23 eV by fitting the current-voltage curve of the NPB/MPV-AQ bilayer OLED. And the electron mobility of MPV-AQ is determined by the delay time of transient electroluminescence (EL) and shows field-dependence with the value on the order of 10<sup>–6</sup> cm<sup>2</sup>/(V·s). In addition, the electron-hole recombination coefficient is obtained from the long time component of the temporal decay of the EL intensity, and the coefficient is found to decrease with the applied voltage increasing, which is consistent with the efficiency roll-off in this bilayer OLED. This study may provide a foundation for understanding the electronic processes of carrier injection, transport and recombination in the OLEDs, which is helpful in improving the device performance.

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  • R Fig. 5. (a) Voltage dependence of the transient EL from the bilayer organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with the same thickness of 50 nm for NPB and MPV

  • 式为μ = L/(td F), 这里 L 和 F 分别为 MPV-AQ 的厚度 Le 和平均电场 Fe, 因为 Le 和 Lh 相等而且 Fe 远大于 Fh, 由 (2) 式可得 Fe ≈ Vapp/Le, 于是电

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Introduction

研究发现, 在基于 N,N’-二 (萘-1基)-N,N’-二苯基-联苯胺 (NPB)/MPV-AQ 的双层 OLED 中, 电子以 Fowler-Nordheim(FN) 隧穿的方式从阴极 注入到 MPV-AQ 层, 这与 MPV-AQ 单电子器件中电子以 Richardson-Schottky(RS) 热电子发射的注入方式完 全不同. Matsumura 等[19−21] 对 TPD/Alq[3] 双层结构 OLED 的电流-电压特性进行了分析, 他 们发现无论是电子注入还是空穴注入都符合 Schottky 发射机理. 本文用稳态电流-电压特性和瞬态 EL 技术研 究了一种苯乙烯基喹啉衍生物的光电性质, 用 2, 2’-(2, 5-二甲氧基–1, 4-苯二乙烯基) 双–8-乙酰氧 基喹啉 (MPV-AQ) 同时作为发光材料和电子传输 材料, N, N’-二 (萘–1-基)-N, N’-二苯基-联苯胺 (NPB) 作为空穴传输材料, 构筑了具有 NPB/MPVAQ 双层结构的 OLED 器件, 通过电流-电压特性 分析了电子从阴极到 MPV-AQ 的注入过程, 通过 瞬态 EL 研究了 MPV-AQ 的电子传输能力以及电 子和空穴的复合能力.

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