The Effect of Particle Size on the Optical and Electrical Characteristics of Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diode using Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

Author(s):  
Da-Young Park ◽  
Dae-gye Moon
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 3795-3799
Author(s):  
Mi-Young Ha ◽  
Chang Kyo Kim ◽  
Dae-Gyu Moon

Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have been widely used as an inorganic electron transport layer (ETL) in quantum dot light-emitting devices (QLEDs) due to their excellent electrical properties. Here, we report the effect of ZnO NPs inorganic ETL of different particle sizes on the electrical and optical properties of QLEDs. We synthesized ZnO NPs into the size of 3 nm and 8 nm respectively and used them as an inorganic ETL of QLEDs. The particle size and crystal structure of the synthesized ZnO NPs were verified by Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis and X-ray pattern analysis. The device with 8 nm ZnO NPs ETL exhibited higher efficiency than the 3 nm ZnO NPs ETL device in the single hole transport layer (HTL) QLEDs. The maximum current efficiency of 19.0 cd/A was achieved in the device with 8 nm ZnO NPs layer. We obtained the maximum current efficiency of 17.5 cd/A in 3 nm ZnO NPs device by optimizing bilayer HTL and ZnO NPs ETL.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 4454-4457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da-Young Park ◽  
Jae-Hoon Lim ◽  
Mi-Young Ha ◽  
Dae-Gyu Moon

Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) have attracted considerable attention owing to the narrow emission spectra, wide color gamut, high quantum yield and size-controlled emission wavelength. Zinc oxide nanoparticles have been widely used as an electron transport layer (ETL) in QLEDs due to their excellent electrical properties. In this study, we compared the efficiency of QLEDs with organic and zinc oxide ETLs in viewpoint of the charge balance. The QLEDs were constructed using ZnO nanoparticles with an average particle size of 3 nm or 3TPYMB as the ETL materials. CdSe/ZnS quantum dots and poly-TPD were used as a light-emitting elements and hole transporting material, respectively. The QLED with 3TPYMB ETL exhibited current efficiency of 7.71 cd/A, while the efficiency of the QLED using ZnO nanoparticles was significantly improved to 38.76 cd/A. Such a substantial improvement of emission efficiency in the QLEDs with ZnO ETL was attributed to the much better charge balance by the ZnO.


2013 ◽  
Vol 446-447 ◽  
pp. 181-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naif Mohammed Al-Hada ◽  
Elias Saion ◽  
A.H. Shaari ◽  
M.A. Kamarudin ◽  
Salahudeen A. Gene

Zinc oxide nanoparticles were synthesized by the thermal-treatment method. Polyvinyl pyrrolidone was used as capping agent and Zinc nitrate was used as a precursor. The samples were calcined at 500 and 550°C for removal of the organic compounds. The structural characteristics of the calcined samples were examined by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The results show that the average particle size increases with increase in calcination temperature. The optical properties were characterized at room temperature using a UV–Vis spectrophotometer in the wavelength range between 200–800 nm and the band gap energy was calculated from reflectance spectra using kubalka munk function and the results indicated that the band gap energy decreased from 3.23 eV at 500 oC to 3.21 eV at 600 °C due to an increase of particle size. This simple thermal-treatment method has advantages of the pure nanoparticles formation as no additional chemicals were required, a lack of by-product effluents, and environmentally friendly process.


Vacuum ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Thangaraj ◽  
Jayaprakash Rajan ◽  
Sathyaraj Durai ◽  
Sanjay Kumar ◽  
Ayalsomayajula RatnaPhani ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 015301 ◽  
Author(s):  
S S Ashtaputre ◽  
A Nojima ◽  
S K Marathe ◽  
D Matsumura ◽  
T Ohta ◽  
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