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Infrared organic light-emitting diodes with carbon nanotube emitters

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Date
22/03/2018
Author
Graf, Arko
Murawski, Caroline
Zakharko, Yuriy
Zaumseil, Jana
Gather, Malte Christian
Funder
European Commission
European Research Council
Grant ID
703387
640012
Keywords
OLED
Single-walled carbon nanotube
Near infrared
Trion
Emitter orientation
QC Physics
QH301 Biology
T Technology
DAS
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Abstract
While organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) covering all colors of the visible spectrum have been demonstrated, suitable organic emitter materials in the near-infrared (nIR) beyond 800 nm are still lacking. Here, we demonstrate the first OLED based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as the emitter. By using a multi-layer stacked architecture with matching charge blocking and charge transport layers, we achieve narrow band electroluminescence at wavelengths between 1000 nm and 1200 nm, with spectral features characteristic of excitonic and trionic emission of the (6,5) SWCNTs used. We investigate the OLED performance in detail and find that local conduction hot-spots lead to pronounced trion emission. Analysis of the emissive dipole orientation shows a strong horizontal alignment of the SWCNTs with an average inclination angle of 12.9° with respect to the plane, leading to an exceptionally high outcoupling efficiency of 49 %. Our SWCNT-based OLEDs represent a highly attractive platform for emission across the entire nIR.
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Graf , A , Murawski , C , Zakharko , Y , Zaumseil , J & Gather , M C 2018 , ' Infrared organic light-emitting diodes with carbon nanotube emitters ' , Advanced Materials , vol. 30 , no. 12 , 1706711 . https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706711
Publication
Advanced Materials
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706711
ISSN
1521-4095
Type
Journal article
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© 2018, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706711
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This research was financially supported by the Volkswagen Foundation (93404), the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 306298 (EN-LUMINATE) and by EPSRC (EP/R010595/1). C.M. acknowledges funding by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (703387). J.Z. thanks the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung via the “Alfried Krupp Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer” for general support.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16955

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