Highly Efficient Hybrid Perovskite/Organic Tandem White Light Emitting-Diodes with External Quantum Efficiency Exceeding 20%

Perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have shown great potential for low-cost display and lighting technologies, and all-inorganic blue PeLEDs are recognized as a promising substitute for blue fluorescent/phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) owing to their superior color purity and great stability potential. However, confined by the solution fabrication process, depositing multi-layered white PeLEDs remains a challenge. Here, a newly designed hybrid perovskite/organic tandem white LED (POTWLED), integrated with a bottom blue PeLED unit and a top orange/(orange + red) OLED unit, to prevent damage to the underlying perovskite layer caused by the deposition of the top emitting layers, is reported. To optimize the performance of POTWLEDs, a conductive passivator of 2,8-bis(diphenylphosphoryl)dibenzo[b,d] thiophene, with a strong surface binding group of PO, is introduced to passivate perovskite defects, which promotes a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 17.3% for blue PeLEDs with an emission peak at 488 nm. As a result, based on the optimized blue PeLED units, a maximum EQE of 23.9% with a low color temperature of 2522 K is obtained for POTWLEDs, which is the highest efficiency for perovskite-based WLEDs, illustrating the great potential of the hybrid tandem device in fabricating high-performance perovskite-based WLEDs.

Automated summary

A hybrid perovskite/organic tandem white LED structure design successfully addresses the challenge of depositing multi-layered white PeLEDs and achieves high-efficiency white light emission. The performance of blue PeLEDs is optimized using a conductive passivator, and the highest efficiency POTWLEDs are obtained through the tandem structure.