Efficiency improvement and spectral shift of an organic light-emitting device with a square-based microlens array
Resource
Optics Communications 281 (22): 5625-5632
Journal
Optics Communications
Journal Volume
281
Journal Issue
22
Pages
5625 - 5632
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Wei, Mao-Kuo
Chen, Kuan-Yu
Ho, Yu-Hsuan
Lin, Ciao-Ci
Wu, Chia-Fang
Lin, Hung-Yi
Tsai, Jen-Hui
Wu, Tung-Chuan
Abstract
In this paper, we present and analyze the influences of the fill factor and the height ratio of square-based microlens arrays on the optical characteristics of an organic light-emitting device (OLED). These properties include spectral shift, CIE coordinates, viewing-angle dependence, luminous current efficiency and luminous power efficiency. Both the luminous current efficiency and luminous power efficiency of the OLED were found to increase linearly with increasing the fill factor of microlenses. It is also found that the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the OLED spectra and CIE coordinate decreased linearly with increasing the fill factor of the microlenses. Besides, the efficiency improvement of the OLED increased with the height ratio of attached microlenses. Compared to the OLED, the luminous current efficiency and luminous power efficiency of the device can be enhanced by 42% and 47%, respectively, by attaching the microlens array having a fill factor of 90% and a height ratio of 0.57. We also observed blue shifts at different viewing angles when microlens arrays were attached to the OLED, which is the evidence that the waveguiding modes are being extracted. In our planar OLED, the peak wavelength blue shifted and the FWHM decreased with increasing the viewing angles due to the microcavity effect. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Subjects
Fill factor; Height ratio; Luminous current efficiency; Luminous power efficiency; Microlens; Organic light-emitting device
Type
journal article
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