• Journal of Information Display
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.139-143
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• 2012

In this study, optical simulation was used to compare three optical structures that could be applied to the typical organic light-emitting diode to increase the outcoupling efficiency. These were spherical scattering particles (treated as Mie scatterers) embedded in the glass substrate, microlenses formed on the glass substrate, and a diffusing layer (DL) with a Gaussian scattering distribution function inserted between the indium tin oxide (ITO) and the glass substrate. It was found that the application of microlens array and that of scattering particles in the glass substrate exhibited similar enhancements in the outcoupling efficiency when the density and the refractive index of the scattering particles were optimized. The DL located at the interface between the glass and the ITO further enhanced the efficiency because it could further extract the trapped light in the waveguide mode. The appropriate combination of these three structures increased the outcoupling efficiency to about 42%, which is much greater than the typical values of 15-20% when there is no optical structure for light extraction.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.269-274
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• 2013

The effect of diffusing substrate and pillow lenses on the outcoupling efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) was studied by optical simulation based on the point-dipole model. The diffusing substrate included Mie scatterers by which the condition of total internal reflection could be broken. The finite-difference time-domain method was used to obtain the intensity distribution on the transparent electrode of an OLED, which was used as a light source to carry out a ray-tracing simulation of the OLED and the diffusing substrate. It was found that the outcoupling efficiency of the OLED was sensitive to the thickness of organic layers and could be increased by 21.0% by adopting a diffusing substrate in which Mie scatterers whose radius was $2.0{\mu}m$ were included at the density of $10^7mm^{-3}$ and by 65.5% by forming one pillow lens with the radius of 2 mm on the front surface of the glass substrate. This study revealed that the outcoupling efficiency could be improved by adopting diffusing substrate and pillow lenses along with the optimization of the thickness of each layer in the OLED.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.732-738
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• 2014

Combined optical simulation of the ray-tracing technique and the finite difference time domain method was used to investigate the effect of the emitter orientation and the photonic crystal layer on the outcoupling efficiency (OCE) of bottom-emission type organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The OLED with a horizontal emitter exhibited an opposite interference effect to that of one with a vertical emitter, which suggested that the OCE would be very sensitive to the emitter orientation at a fixed emitter-cathode distance. The OLED with a horizontal emitter exhibited much larger OCE than that with a vertical emitter did, which was due to the substantial difference in the radiation pattern along with the different coupling with the surface plasmon excitation. The OCE with a horizontal emitter was increased by approximately 1.3 times by inserting a photonic crystal layer between the indium tin oxide layer and the glass substrate. The present study suggested that appropriate control of the emitter orientation and its combination to other outcoupling structures could be used to enhance the OCE of OLEDs substantially.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.193-199
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 FDTD와 광선추적기법을 결합한 시뮬레이션을 활용해 광원으로 설정된 쌍극자의 진동 방향, 유리기판에 적용된 Mie 산란입자와 Pillow 렌즈가 광결정 구조가 포함된 OLED의 광추출효율에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 쌍극자 광원의 진동방향이 OLED 표면에 대해 수평인 경우, 광결정구조만 적용된 OLED의 효율이 54%인데 반해 최적화된 조건의 Mie 산란입자, Pillow 렌즈가 적용된 OLED는 약 86%의 광추출효율을 나타냈다. 아울러 광결정 구조로 인해 특정 각도로 광도가 증가하는 문제점이 Mie 산란입자의 산란효과로 인해 완화될 수 있음을 알았다. 본 연구는 광추출효율을 향상시키는 다양한 광학구조를 적용함과 더불어 발광체 유기분자의 배향을 조절함으로써 OLED의 효율을 큰 폭으로 향상시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2007년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.253-254
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• 2007

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2008년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.393-394
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• 2008

• 한국광학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.441-446
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• 2007

OLED 소자는 유리기판과 공기 층의 경계면에서 발생하는 전반사와 ITO-유기층으로 형성되는 광도파로를 따라 진행하는 도파모드 결합으로 인해 내부에서 생성된 빛의 80% 이상이 외부로 추출되지 못하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 마이크로 렌즈 어레이와 회절격자 레지스트 층을 이용하여 소자 내부에서 손실되는 빛을 외부로 추출시킴으로써 OLED의 발광효율을 향상시킨다. 마이크로 렌즈 어레이를 이용하여 유리기판-공기 전반사로 인해 내부에 갇히는 빛을 외부로 출력시키고, ITO 와 유기물 사이에 회절격자 레지스트 층을 삽입하여 ITO-유기층 광도파로에 갇힌 빛들을 수직방향으로 추출될 수 있도록 하였다. 제작된 OLED 소자에 전류밀도 $20mA/cm^2$를 인가한 경우, 마이크로 렌즈 어레이를 적용한 OLED에서 22%의 효율 개선을 얻었고, 회절격자 레지스트 층을 가지는 OLED 의 경우 41%의 효율개선을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.966-969
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• 2006

An optical model based on the optical thin-film theory is derived to calculate the output radiance of small molecules organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). We have designed the high efficiency OLEDs using the reflectance phase control of dielectric layers. It is found that OLED with a single $TiO_2$ dielectric layer is a good candidate to enhance the outcoupling efficiency and increase the color purity.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1109-1111
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• 2008

High efficacy white OLEDs with low voltage, high quantum efficiency and outcoupling fixtures achieve total power efficacies of 89 lm/W to 102 lm/W, operating voltages between 2.8 V and 3.5 V at correlated color temperatures of 2,800 - 3,900 K and color rendering ~70, at 1,000 nits.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.521-522
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• 2008

An etch-less simple method was developed to fabricate two-dimensional nanostructures on glass substrate directly by using UV curable polymer resin and UV nanoimprint lithography in order to improve output coupling efficiency of OLEDs. OLEDs integrated on nanoimprinted substrates enhanced electro-luminance intensity by up to 50% compared with the conventional device.