Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Higher order effects in organic LEDs with sub-bandgap turn-on

  • Sebastian Engmann,
  • Adam J. Barito,
  • Emily G. Bittle,
  • Noel C. Giebink,
  • Lee J. Richter,
  • David J. Gundlach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08075-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Conflicting mechanisms have been proposed to explain the sub-bandgap turn-on behaviour of heterojunction organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Here, by probing and modifying the OLED heterojunction, the authors show that band-to-band recombination is the most likely radiative recombination process.