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Analysis of Intrinsic Degradation Mechanism in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes by Impedance Spectroscopy |
| ZHENG Rui1,2, HUANG Wen-Bo1**, XU Wei1, CAO Yong1 |
1State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641
2Department of Materials, Taizhou University, Taizhou 317000
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ZHENG Rui, HUANG Wen-Bo, XU Wei et al 2014 Chin. Phys. Lett. 31 027703 |
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Abstract The organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in the sandwiched structures ITO/poly[3,4-ethylenedioxythiopene] (PEDOT)/poly[9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-4,7-di-2-thienyl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole] (PFO-DBT15)/Ba/Al are fabricated. We use impedance measurements to investigate the degradation of aged OLEDs. A detailed analysis of the impedance spectra as functions of frequency and dc bias yields information about the injection of the interfacial electrode and the transport properties of emissive layer changes. Morphology differences between degraded and undegraded devices can also be observed by a scanning electron microscope. We perform comparative studies of the impedance spectroscopy (IS) of undegraded and degraded devices by both experiment and simulation approaches to explain the degradation mechanism for OLEDs. The IS of the undegraded device can be well understood by simply adopting the conventional RC equivalent circuits. For the degraded device, however, the successful model of the impedance spectroscopy results needs to take into account the more complicated situations, and we adopt a constant phase element to meet the experimental and simulated data and discuss the reasons caused by the problem.
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Received: 05 November 2013
Published: 28 February 2014
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77.84.Jd
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(Polymers; organic compounds)
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72.80.Le
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(Polymers; organic compounds (including organic semiconductors))
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81.05.Fb
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(Organic semiconductors)
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