Electroluminescent Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes with ZnO and MoO3 Carrier Transport Layers
In this article, the quantum dot (QD) light emitting diodes (QDLEDs) with ZnO electron transport layer (ETL) and MoO3hole transport layer (HTL) were demonstrated. The ZnO ETL was fabricated by sol-gel method. To achieve balanced electron and hole injection, hole transport materials including 4,4'-di(N-carbazolyl)biphenyl (CBP) and MoO3were also adapted. The device structure can be simply depicted as indium tin oxide (ITO)/ZnO/Cs2CO3/QD/CBP/MoO3/Au. It was found that the Cs2CO3played an important role to facilitate radiative recombination and reduce the leakage current due to the poor quality of sol-gel fabricated ZnO thin film. Via inserting an annealed Cs2CO3buffer layer with proper thickness, red-emitting QDLEDs with low luminance turn-on voltage of 4.1 V and luminance larger than 100 cd/m2could be obtained. With our demonstration, QDLEDs with ZnO ETL can be a promising device structure for realizing QDLED’s commerizing.