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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages 7524-7537Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.007524
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- European Social Fund
- Free State of Saxony through the OrganoMechanics project
- AIF/BMWi [GF-11/05 resp. AiF-Nr. 16784 BR]
- German Research Foundation
- TU Dresden
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Bragg scattering at one-dimensional corrugated substrates allows to improve the light outcoupling from top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The OLEDs rely on a highly efficient phosphorescent pin stack and contain metal electrodes that introduce pronounced microcavity effects. A corrugated photoresist layer underneath the bottom electrode introduces light scattering. Compared to optically optimized reference OLEDs without the corrugated substrate, the corrugation increases light outcoupling efficiency but does not adversely affect the electrical properties of the devices. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) is increased from 15% for an optimized planar layer structure to 17.5% for a corrugated OLED with a grating period of 1.0 mu m m and a modulation depth of about 70 nm. Detailed analysis and optical modeling of the angular resolved emission spectra of the OLEDs provide evidence for Bragg scattering of waveguided and surface plasmon modes that are normally confined within the OLED stack into the air-cone. We observe constructive and destructive interference between these scattered modes and the radiative cavity mode. This interference is quantitatively described by a complex summation of Lorentz-like resonances. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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