OLED Displays and Lighting (eBook)

Dr. Koden is currently a Professor at the Innovation Center for Organic Electronics (INOEL) at Yamagata University, Japan. He is the author/ co-author of more than 70 papers and articles, and is the inventor of more than 150 patents. Prof. Koden has extensive R&D industrial experience from his 30 year career at Sharp Corporation.

Preface

1. History of OLED

2. Fundamentals of OLED

1) Principle of OLED

2) Fundamental structure of OLED

3) Features of OLED

3. Light emission mechanism

1) Fluorescent OLED

2) Phosphorescent OLED

3) Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) OLED

4) Light emission efficiency

4. OLED materials

1) Types of OLED materials

2) Anode materials

3) Evaporation materials (Small molecules)

a) Hole injection materials

b) Hole transport

c) Emitting materials and host materials in fluorescent emission layers

d) Emitting materials and host materials in phosphorescent emission layers

Phosphorescent emitting dopants

Host materials for blue phosphorescent OLEDs

e) Emitting materials and host materials in TADF emission layers

f) Electron transport materials

g) Electron injection materials and cathodes

h) Charge-carrier and exciton blocking materials

i) n-dope and p-dope materials

4) Solution materials

a) Polymer materials

b) Dendrimers

c) Small molecules

5) Molecular orientation of organic materials

5. OLED device

1) Bottom emission, top emission and transparent

2) Normal and inversed structures

3) White OLED

4) Full-color technologies

a. RGB side by side

b. White + CF

c. Blue emission with color changing medium (CCM)

5) Micro-cavity structure

6) Multi-photon OLED

7) Encapsulation

a. Thin film encapsulation

b. Desiccant technologies

6. OLED fabrication process

1) Vacuum evaporation process

a. Mask deposition

b. Three types of evaporation methods

c. Ultra-high vacuum

2) Wet processes

3) Laser processes

7. Performances of OLED

1) Characteristics of OLED

2) Life time

a. Storage lifetime

b. Driving lifetime

3) Temperature measurement of OLED device

Chapter 8. OLED display

1) Features of OLED displays

2) Types of OLED displays

3) Passive-matrix OLED display (PM-OLED)

4) Active-matrix OLED display (AM-OLED)

a. TFT circuit technologies

b. TFT device technologies

c. Commercialized and prototype AM-OLED displays

9. OLED lighting

1) Appearance of OLED lighting

2) Feature of OLED lighting

3) Fundamental technologies of OLED lighting

4) Light extraction enhancement technologies

5) Performance of OLED lighting

6) Color tunable OLED lighting

7) Application of OLED lighting

10. Flexible OLED

1) Early studies of flexible OLEDs

2) Flexible substrates

a. Ultra-thin glass

b. Stainless steel foil

c. Plastic film

3) Flexible OLED display

a. Flexible OLED display on ultra-thin glass

b. Flexible OLED display on stainless steel foil

c. Flexible OLED display on plastic film

4) Flexible OLED lighting

a. Flexible OLED lighting on ultra-thin glass

b. Flexible OLED lighting on stainless steel foil

c. Flexible OLED lighting on plastic film

5) Toward to flexible

11. New technologies

1) Non-ITO transparent electrodes

a. Conducting polymer

b. Stacked layer using Ag

c. Silver nanowire (AgNW)

d. Carbon nanotube (CNT)

2) Organic TFT

3) Wet processed TFT

4) Novel wet processed or printed OLED

5) Roll-to-roll (R2R) equipment technologies

6) Quantum dot (QD)