Ultrahigh Color Rendering in RGB Perovskite Micro-Light-Emitting Diode Arrays with Resonance-Enhanced Photon Recycling for Next Generation Displays

Light sources with high color purity are promising for revolutionizing traditional displays because of their wide achievable color gamut, high contrast ratio, and good color saturation. The demand for next-generation displays has driven the development of the optoelectronic materials with narrow linewidth. Until now, most optoelectronic materials usually give emission with full width at half maximum exceeding 30 nm. The lack of a general approach to further improving the color purity has limited their applications for next-generation displays. Here, a universal resonance-enhanced photon recycling strategy is developed to realize current-driven displays with unprecedented high color rendering based on the perovskite light-emitting diode (LED) arrays in distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) cavity. Benefiting from the outstanding optoelectronic properties and solution processability, perovskites are processed into micro-LED arrays through a screen-printing technology. The light output from individual micro-LED is strongly modulated by resonance-enhanced photon recycling derived from the cavity structure, leading to significant spectral narrowing and directional emission. On this basis, unprecedented high-color-purity is achieved in a prototype of current-driven display panels. The outstanding performance of red, green, and blue (RGB) micro-LED arrays with resonance-enhanced photon recycling provides a deep insight into the design concepts and device structures for next-generation display technology.

Automated summary

Light sources with high color purity have the potential to revolutionize traditional displays, and a universal resonance-enhanced photon recycling strategy has been developed to achieve unprecedented high color rendering in current-driven displays based on perovskite LED arrays in distributed Bragg reflector cavities.