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Optimizing efficiency of polycrystalline p-Si anode organic light-emitting diode

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Optimizing efficiencies of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a structure of Al/glass/nanometer-thick polycrystalline p-Si (NPPS) anode/SiO2/N′-bis-(1-naphthl)-diphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diamine (NPB)/tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3)/4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (BPhen):Cs2CO3/Sm/Au were studied. The NPPS anodes were fabricated by magnetron sputtering (MS) Si and Ni layers followed by Ni-induced crystallization of the amorphous Si layers. By adjusting the resistivity of the p-Si target adopted in MS, the electroluminescent efficiency of the OLED was optimized. When the resistivity of the p-Si target is 0.01 Ω·cm, the current and power efficiencies of the NPPS anode OLED reach maximum values of 6.7 cd·A−1 and 4.64 lm·W−1, respectively, which are 2.7 and 3.1 times those of the resistivity-optimized bulk p-Si anode counterpart and 2.9 and 3.7 times those of the indium tin oxide (ITO) anode counterpart, and then, the physical reasons were discussed.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 50732001, 10674012, 10874001, and 60877022) and the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB613402).

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    Jian-Xing Luo, Wei Wang, Hu Meng, Wan-Jin Xu & Guo-Gang Qin

  2. Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100083, China

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Luo, JX., Wang, W., Meng, H. et al. Optimizing efficiency of polycrystalline p-Si anode organic light-emitting diode. Rare Met. 35, 826–830 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-016-0720-9

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