CHENG Cui-ran, CHEN Yu-huan, QIN Da-shan, QUAN Wei, LIU Jin-suo. Lithium Carbonate Doped 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic Dianhydride for Enhanced Performance in Organic Light Emitting Diode[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2011,32(4): 387-392
∶ PTCDA) was fabricated as electron injection layer in NPB/Alq
3
heterojunction based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). It was found that the current of OLED using Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA was strongly dependent on the Li
2
CO
3
doping concentration. The OLED using Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA(1 ∶ 1) with Al as the cathode exhibits an improved power efficiency and significantly increased luminance
comparing with the one using Li
2
CO
3
∶ BCP(1 ∶ 4) with Al as the cathode and the one using the regular LiF/Al cathode.It is because the electron conductivity for Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA/(1 ∶ 1) is much higher than that Li
2
CO
3
∶ BCP(1 ∶ 4) and neat Alq
3
. In addition
it is found that there exist a Schottky barrier at the intrinsic interface of Alq
3
and Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA(1 ∶ 1)
which suppress the electron transfer from Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA(1 ∶ 1) into Alq
3
. However
the release of Li atoms upon the Al deposition onto 1 ∶ 1 Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA could turn the interface into an ohmic contact
thereby delivering efficient electron injection from Li
2
CO
3
∶ PTCDA(1 ∶ 1) into Alq
3
. We provided a class of high-function
low-cost
and easily fabricated n-doped material for the performance enhancement of OLEDs.
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