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OPTICAL REVIEW
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 104-110Publisher
OPTICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-006-0104-8
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organic electroluminescent device; high refractive index; scattering particle; wave-guided light
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To improve light extraction from organic electroluminescent (EL) devices, we introduced a diffusive Substrate with 25 mu m thickness consisting of high refractive index resin and scattering particles. It is expected that the diffusive substrate with high refractive index matrix converts the waveguided emission into external emission from both glass substrate and indium-tin-oxide/organic layer. We used the ray, tracing method to optimize the scattering effect and to verify the coupling out effect of the diffusive high refractive index substrate. With the use of the ray tracing calculation, an increase in the external emission up to a factor of 2.7 was expected compared to use of a common glass substrate. Experimentally, the coupling out effect of the diffusive high refractive index substrate strongly depended on the thickness of electron transporting layer (ETL) due to the well-known interference effect. The current efficiency increased by a factor of 1.3 for an organic EL device with a 60-nm-thick ETL and by a factor of 6.8 for one with a 120 nm-thick ETL. (c) 2006 The Optical Society of Japan.
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