Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 1400-1408Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00155
Keywords
cadmium-free quantum dots; light-emitting diodes; electron over-injection; charge balance; exciton quenching
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61922028, 61874039]
- Innovation Research Team of Science and Technology in Henan Province [20IRTSTHN020]
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Developing high-quality and cadmium-free blue quantum dots and their efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is crucial for industrialization. Sn-doped ZnO was used to mitigate electron over-injection in deep-blue cadmium-free QLEDs, improving their efficiency and lifetime and offering an effective pathway for commercialization.
Developing high-quality and cadmium-free blue quantum dots (QDs) and their corresponding efficient lightemitting diodes (LEDs) is essential for facilitating their industrialization. ZnSe-based QDs as the prospective blue alternative material for cadmium-based QDs have attracted great attention. However, realizing efficient blue-emitting, especially deep-blue-emitting, devices is seriously limited by the deep valence band and excessive defect states in the wide bandgap QDs. Although the common electron transport layer, that is, ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) can provide effective electron injection, the large hole injection barrier usually causes unbalanced charge injection. Here, we report deep-blue cadmium-free QLEDs at 443 nm with improved efficiency and operational lifetime employing ZnO with Sn doping for mitigating electron over-injection. Theoretical and experimental results reveal that Sn doping causes an upshifted ZnO conduction band and reduces its electron mobility and defect sites. Thus, the electron over-injection in devices is inhibited to achieve charge balance, and the exciton quenching in QDs is reduced to improve radiation recombination. Resultantly, the external quantum efficiency of devices is improved to 13.6 from 5.1%, and the device lifetime (T-50@100 cd m(-2)) is enhanced 21-fold, reaching 305 h, representing the best among ZnSe-based QLEDs so far. These results offer an effective pathway for deep-blue QLEDs toward commercialization.
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