《High-performance crosslinked colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting diodes》.pdfVIP

ARTICLES PUBLISHED ONLINE: 24 MAY 2009 | DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2009.92 High-performance crosslinked colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting diodes 1 1 2 2 1 1 Kyung-Sang Cho , Eun Kyung Lee , Won-Jae Joo , Eunjoo Jang , Tae-Ho Kim , Sang Jin Lee , Soon-Jae Kwon2 3 2 1 1 , Jai Yong Han , Byung-Ki Kim , Byoung Lyong Choi * and Jong Min Kim Colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting diodes have recently received considerable attention due to their ease of colour tunability, high brightness and narrow emission bandwidth. Although there have been rapid advances in luminance, efficiency and lifetime, device performance is still limited by the large energy barriers for hole and electron injection into the quantum-dot layer. Here, we show that by crosslinking the colloidal quantum-dot layer, the charge injection barrier in a red-light-emitting quantum-dot light-emitting diode may be considerably reduced by using a sol–gel TiO2 layer for electron transport. The device architecture is compatible with all-solution device fabrication and the resulting device shows a high luminance (12,380 cd m22), low turn-on voltage (1.9 V) and high power efficiency (2.41 lm W21). Incorporation of the technology into a display device with an active matrix drive backplane suggests that the approach has promise for use in high-performance, easy-to-fabricate, large-area displays and illumination sources. ince the first report on colloidal quantum-dot light-