Operating organic light-emitting diodes imaged by super-resolution spectroscopy [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.38 Electronics, communications engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: Article No. 11691 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 255782
• Chủ đề: 1. 30 direct energy conversion; 2. 36 materials science; 3. 37 inorganic, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry; 4. 47 other instrumentation; 5. 77 nanoscience and nanotechnology; 6. Et al; 7. Imaging; 8. In situ; 9. Led; 10. Light-emitting; 11. Super-resolution

Tóm tắt

Super-resolution stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is adapted here for materials characterization that would not otherwise be possible. With the example of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), spectral imaging with pixel-by-pixel wavelength discrimination allows us to resolve local-chain environment encoded in the spectral response of the semi-conducting polymer, and correlate chain packing with local electroluminescence by using externally applied current as the excitation source. We observe nanoscopic defects that would be unresolvable by traditional microscopy. They are revealed in electroluminescence maps in operating OLEDs with 50 nm spatial resolution. We find that brightest emission comes from regions with more densely packed chains. Conventional microscopy of an operating OLED would lack the resolution needed to discriminate these features, while traditional methods to resolve nanoscale features generally cannot be performed when the device is operating. As a result, this points the way towards real-time analysis of materials design principles in devices as they actually operate.