Regensburg 2013 – scientific programme
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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 73: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics II (jointly with CPP, DS, and HL)
O 73.6: Talk
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 16:30–16:45, H34
Degradation induced decrease of the radiative quantum efficiency in organic light-emitting diodes — •Tobias D. Schmidt1, Daniel S. Setz2, Michael Flämmich3, Bert J. Scholz1, Arndt Jaeger2, Carola Diez2, Dirk Michaelis3, Norbert Danz3, and Wolfgang Brütting1 — 1Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany — 2OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Leibnizstrasse 4, 93055 Regensburg, Germany — 3Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, 07745 Jena, Germany
The efficiency decrease during electrical operation of organic light-emitting diodes is a crucial issue for both applied and fundamental research. In order to investigate degradation processes, we have performed an efficiency analysis for phosphorescent state-of-the-art devices in the pristine state and after an accelerated aging process at high current density resulting in a luminance drop to less than 60 % of the initial value. This loss in efficiency can be explained by a decrease of the radiative quantum efficiency of the light-emitting guest/host system from 70 % to 40 %, while other factors determining the efficiency are not affected.