Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2047
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes
Authors: Züfle, Simon
Altazin, Stéphane
Hofmann, Alexander
Jäger, Lars
Neukom, Martin
Schmidt, Tobias D.
Brütting, Wolfgang
Ruhstaller, Beat
DOI: 10.21256/zhaw-2047
10.1063/1.4982903
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics
Volume(Issue): 121
Issue: 175501
Issue Date: May-2017
Publisher / Ed. Institution: American Institute of Physics
ISSN: 0021-8979
1089-7550
Language: English
Subject (DDC): 621.3: Electrical, communications, control engineering
Abstract: We demonstrate the application of the CELIV (charge carrier extraction by linearly increasing voltage) technique to bilayer organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) in order to selectively determine the hole mobility in N,N0-bis(1-naphthyl)-N,N0-diphenyl-1,10-biphenyl-4,40-diamine (α-NPD). In the CELIV technique, mobile charges in the active layer are extracted by applying a negative voltage ramp, leading to a peak superimposed to the measured displacement current whose temporal position is related to the charge carrier mobility. In fully operating devices, however, bipolar carrier transport and recombination complicate the analysis of CELIV transients as well as the assignment of the extracted mobility value to one charge carrier species. This has motivated a new approach of fabricating dedicated metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) devices, where the extraction current contains signatures of only one charge carrier type. In this work, we show that the MIS-CELIV concept can be employed in bilayer polar OLEDs as well, which are easy to fabricate using most common electron transport layers (ETLs), like Tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3). Due to the macroscopic polarization of the ETL, holes are already injected into the hole transport layer below the built-in voltage and accumulate at the internal interface with the ETL. This way, by a standard CELIV experiment only holes will be extracted, allowing us to determine their mobility. The approach can be established as a powerful way of selectively measuring charge mobilities in new materials in a standard device configuration.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2767
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY 3.0: Attribution 3.0 Unported
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Computational Physics (ICP)
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Züfle, S., Altazin, S., Hofmann, A., Jäger, L., Neukom, M., Schmidt, T. D., Brütting, W., & Ruhstaller, B. (2017). The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Applied Physics, 121(175501). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2047
Züfle, S. et al. (2017) ‘The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes’, Journal of Applied Physics, 121(175501). Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2047.
S. Züfle et al., “The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 121, no. 175501, May 2017, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2047.
ZÜFLE, Simon, Stéphane ALTAZIN, Alexander HOFMANN, Lars JÄGER, Martin NEUKOM, Tobias D. SCHMIDT, Wolfgang BRÜTTING und Beat RUHSTALLER, 2017. The use of charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage in polar organic light-emitting diodes. Journal of Applied Physics. Mai 2017. Bd. 121, Nr. 175501. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-2047
Züfle, Simon, Stéphane Altazin, Alexander Hofmann, Lars Jäger, Martin Neukom, Tobias D. Schmidt, Wolfgang Brütting, and Beat Ruhstaller. 2017. “The Use of Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage in Polar Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.” Journal of Applied Physics 121 (175501). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2047.
Züfle, Simon, et al. “The Use of Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage in Polar Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 121, no. 175501, May 2017, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2047.


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