Enhanced device performances of a new inverted top-emitting OLEDs with relatively thick Ag electrode

To improve the device performances of top-emitting organic light emitting diodes (TEOLEDs), we developed a new inverted TEOLEDs structure with silver (Ag) metal as a semi-transparent top electrode. Especially, we found that the use of relatively thick Ag electrode without using any carrier injection layer is beneficial to realize highly efficient device performances. Also, we could insert very thick overlying hole transport layer (HTL) on the emitting layer (EML) which could be very helpful to suppress the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) coupling if it is applied to the common bottom-emission OLEDs (BEOLEDs). As a result, we could realize noteworthy high current efficiency of approximately similar to 188.1 cd/A in our new inverted TEOLEDs with 25 nm thick Ag electrode. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.