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- Michael A. Fusella
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Renata Saramak
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Rezlind Bushati
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Vinod M. Menon
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Michael S. Weaver
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Nicholas J. Thompson
(Universal Display Corporation)
- Julia J. Brown
(Universal Display Corporation)
Abstract
The field of plasmonics, which studies the resonant interactions of electromagnetic waves and free electrons in solid-state materials1, has yet to be put to large-scale commercial application2 owing to the large amount of loss that usually occurs in plasmonic materials3. Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs)4–7 have been incorporated into billions of commercial products because of their good colour saturation, versatile form factor8 and low power consumption9, but could still be improved in terms of efficiency and stability. Although OLEDs incorporating organic phosphors achieve an internal charge-to-light conversion of unity10, their refractive index contrast reduces the observable fraction of photons outside the device to around 25 per cent11–13. Further, during OLED operation, a localized buildup of slow-decaying14 triplet excitons and charges15 gradually reduces the brightness of the device in a process called ageing16,17, which can result in ‘burn-in’ effects on the display. Simultaneously improving device efficiency and stability is of paramount importance for OLED technology. Here we demonstrate an OLED that uses the decay rate enhancement18 of a plasmonic system to increase device stability, while maintaining efficiency by incorporating a nanoparticle-based out-coupling scheme to extract energy from the plasmon mode. Using an archetypal phosphorescent emitter, we achieve a two-fold increase in operational stability at the same brightness as a reference conventional device while simultaneously extracting 16 per cent of the energy from the plasmon mode as light. Our approach to increasing OLED stability avoids material-specific designs19–22 and is applicable to all commercial OLEDs that are currently used for lighting panels, televisions and mobile displays.
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Michael A. Fusella & Renata Saramak & Rezlind Bushati & Vinod M. Menon & Michael S. Weaver & Nicholas J. Thompson & Julia J. Brown, 2020.
"Plasmonic enhancement of stability and brightness in organic light-emitting devices,"
Nature, Nature, vol. 585(7825), pages 379-382, September.
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RePEc:nat:nature:v:585:y:2020:i:7825:d:10.1038_s41586-020-2684-z
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2684-z
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- Jiapeng Zheng & Yuang Fu & Jing Wang & Wei Zhang & Xinhui Lu & Hai-Qing Lin & Lei Shao & Jianfang Wang, 2025.
"Circularly polarized OLEDs from chiral plasmonic nanoparticle-molecule hybrids,"
Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-13, December.
- Masanori Sakamoto & Masaki Hada & Wataru Ota & Fumihiko Uesugi & Tohru Sato, 2023.
"Localised surface plasmon resonance inducing cooperative Jahn–Teller effect for crystal phase-change in a nanocrystal,"
Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.
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