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Recent Progress on Organic Emitters for Organic Light Emitting Diode Lightings

유기발광다이오드 조명용 유기발광체의 최근 동향

  • Jung, Hyocheol (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Hayoon (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kang, Seokwoo (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • An, Byeong-Kwan (Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Yook, Kyoung Soo (Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Chemical Engineering) ;
  • Park, Young-Il (Korea Research Institute Chemical Technology, Research Center for Green Fine Chemicals) ;
  • Kim, Beomjin (Korea Research Institute Chemical Technology, Research Center for Green Fine Chemicals) ;
  • Park, Jongwook (Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
  • 정효철 (경희대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 이하윤 (경희대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 강석우 (경희대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 안병관 (가톨릭대학교 화학과) ;
  • 육경수 (성균관대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 박영일 (한국화학연구원 그린정밀화학센터) ;
  • 김범진 (한국화학연구원 그린정밀화학센터) ;
  • 박종욱 (경희대학교 화학공학과)
  • Received : 2016.08.29
  • Accepted : 2016.09.10
  • Published : 2016.10.10
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Abstract

Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) has drawn a lot of attention in academic and industrial fields, which has been successfully commercialized in mobile phones and TV's. In the field of lighting, unlike the existing incandescent or fluorescent lighting, OLED has distinctive qualities such as surface lighting-emission, large-area, lightweight, ultrathin, flexibility in addition to low energy use. This article introduces prominent fluorescent, phosphorescent, and luminescent materials applied to white OLED (WOLED). The understanding and systematic classification of previously studied substances are expected to be greatly helpful for the development of new luminous materials in future.

유기 발광 다이오드(OLED)는 학문 및 산업분야에서 많은 관심을 받고 있다. OLED는 이미 휴대폰과 TV분야에서 상업화에 성공하고 있으며, 조명분야에서는 기존에 사용되어왔던 백열등, 형광등과는 다르게 면발광, 대면적, 초경량, 초박형, 유연성의 특징은 물론 낮은 에너지 사용 등의 차별성을 가지고 있기 때문에 최근 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED)에 적용되는 대표적인 형광 및 인광 발광 재료들을 소개한다. 이렇게 선행 연구된 물질들을 이해하고 체계적으로 분류하는 것은 앞으로 새로운 발광 재료를 연구, 개발하는데 큰 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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