Suppression of the viewing angle dependence by introduction of nanoporous diffuser film on blue OLEDs with strong microcavity effect.pdfVIP

Organic Electronics 28 (2016) 31e38 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Organic Electronics journal homepage: /locate/orgel Suppression of the viewing angle dependence by introduction of nanoporous diffuser ?lm on blue OLEDs with strong microcavity effect Min Chul Suh*, Beom Pyo, Hyung Suk Kim Dept. of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 130-701, Republic of Korea article info Article history: Received 1 September 2015 Received in revised form 7 October 2015 Accepted 13 October 2015 Available online 23 October 2015 Keywords: Microcavity structure Nanoporous polymer ?lm Diffuser Blue ?uorescent OLED Viewing angle dependence abstract A nanoporous polymer ?lm composed of cellulose acetate butyrate was prepared, which showed an optical haze property of approximately 40%. This ?lm was applied as a diffuser ?lm to improve the viewing angle dependence of microcavity structured organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). We prepared this ?lm by simply using a spin-coating process with a continuous supply of water mist from a humidi?er. Air voids or pores with diameters ranging from 300 nm to 500 nm were found inside the polymer ?lm, to produce three-dimensional (3D) nanoporous polymer ?lms with random distribution. We applied this ?lm to a blue ?uorescent OLED device with strong microcavity effect. The ?lm did not affect the total external quantum ef?ciency (EQE) observed using an integrating sphere. However, the current ef?ciency collected from the normal direction was reduced by 25%, which means that the ?lm spread out or scattered the light emitted from the OLED device. As a result, we obtained blue microcavity OLEDs with ef?ciently reduced viewing angle dependency. ? 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction The increasing interest in organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) in recent years has resulted in signi?cant research efforts focused on the development of new, emissive materials and/or device architectures [1e11] for much better perfor