• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.246.2-246.2
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• 2014

Green-light emitting OLED with single layer of Alq3 and orange-light emitting OLED with double layer of rubrene/Alq3 as EML were fabricated and characterized comparatively. The two OLED devices were based on an anode of ITO, HTL of TPD, and cathode of Al, respectively. The green light emitting OLED was then prepared with Alq3 as both ETL and EML, while the orange-light emitting OLED was prepared with rubrene deposited on Alq3. All the component layers of the OLED devices were deposited by a thermal evaporation technique in vacuum. Photoluminescence characteristics of the EML layers were investigated. Electrolumiscence characteristics of the OLED devices were comparatively investigated.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1769-1774
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• 2006

A fully integrated inline OLED production system is presented. The performance of PLED devices that are encapsulated with a thin film multilayer stack are compared to conventionally encapsulated devices with glas/dessicant protection. The observed luminance decay is the same in both cases. The lifetime performance of the thin film encapsulation is measured and critical parameters are discussed. The first smOLED devices produced on the OTB equipment are presented and comparison with other smOLED devices shows very good results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.956-960
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• 2009

The characteristics of organic films can be affected by the temperature of evaporation source because the temperature of evaporation source has an effect on substrate temperature during OLED fabrication process using the thermal evaporation. To investigate the characteristics of OLED devices fabricated by using thermally damaged organic films, I-V-L and half life-time in OLED devices fabricated with various substrate temperatures were measured. During emission layer(EML) evaporation, OLED devices with a structure of ITO(100 nm)/ELM200(50 nm)/NPB(30 nm)/$Alq_3$(55 nm)/LiF(0.7 nm)/Al(100 nm) were fabricated at various substrate temperatures(room temperature, $30^{\circ}C$, $40^{\circ}C$, and $50^{\circ}C$). The characteristics of current density and luminance versus applied voltage in OLED devices fabricated shows that many electrical currents flowed and high brightness appeared at low voltage, but that the lifetime of OLED devices dropped suddenly. This phenomenon explained that the crystallization of $Alq_3$ thin film appeared owing to the substrate heating during evaporation.

• Ceramist
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.64-79
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• 2018

Recent years, OLEDs have been progressed intensively and been widely applied to Display and Lighting industry,Almost 100% internal quantum efficiency was achieved by developing new materials and structure optimization. However, external quantum efficiency was still low due to total internal reflection of light inside OLED devices and absorption of light at the surface of metal electrode. In order to improve external quantum efficiency of OLED devices, various kinds of optical functional structures were introduced to inside and outside of OLED devices to increase light extraction efficiency. In this paper, various efforts to apply optical functional structures in OLED devices were reviewed and way to improve light extraction efficency of OLED devices were discussed.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.1216-1219
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• 2009

Recently,electroluminescence devices based on organic semiconductors have made considerable progress. Displays based on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) are commercially available. To gain broader acceptance, the performance of OLED devices has to be further improved, in particular for lighting. This article discusses the possibility to use controlled electrical doping for improving the properties of devices and new approaches for highly efficient white OLED.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.578-583
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• 2013

The lighting devices using organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are actively researched because of the various advantages such as high power efficiency and 2-dimensitonal lighting emitting. To commercialize those OLED lighting devices, the manufacturing cost must be downed to comparable price with conventional light sources. Here, we demonstrate a reverse gravure-offset or gravure off-set printed metal electrode for the auxiliary electrode for OLED lighting devices. For the fabricated OLED's auxiliary electrode, we used Ag nano-paste and printed metal grid structure with a line width and spacing of several ten and hundred micrometer by using gravure-offset printing. In the end the printing metal grid pattern are successfully achieved by optimization of various experimental conditions such as printing pressure, printing speed and printing delay time.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.562-568
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• 2008

In this paper, the hole injection layer(HIL) materials have been synthesized and analyzed. Their HOMO levels are $4.93{\sim}5.22\;eV$, and their energy band gaps are $2.74{\sim}3.19\;eV$. Their glass transition temperatures($T_g$) are all above $114^{\circ}C$, which implies that they are highly thermal-stable. The green OLED devices with a structure of ITO(150 nm)/NEW_HIL(50 nm)/NPB(30 nm)/$Alq_3$(50 nm)/Al:Li(100 nm) were fabricated and tested, incorporating these newly synthesized HIL materials. According to the test results of OLED devices, the I-V-L performances of these devices increase in the following sequence: ELM307 > ELM200 > ELM321 > ELM327 > ELM325. In addition, the OLED device with ELM307 as a HIL has the highest brightness and efficiency at the same driving voltage. These experimental results have shown that ELM307 can be used as one of the most promising candidates for HIL materials.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.49-52
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• 2009

We have investigated the effect of the surface roughness of TCO substrate on the characteristics of OLED (organic light emitting diodes) devices. In order to control the surface roughness of ITO thin films, we have processed photolithography and reactive ion etching. The micro-size patterned mask was used, and the etching depth was controlled by changing etching time. The surface morphology of the ITO thin film was observed by FESEM and atomic force microscopy (AFM). And then, organic materials and cathode electrode were sequentially deposited on the ITO thin films. Device structure was ITO/$\alpha$-NPD/DPVB/Alq3/LiF/Al. The DPVB was used as a blue emitting material. The electrical characteristics such as current density vs. voltage and luminescence vs. voltage of OLED devices were measured by using spectrometer (minolta CS-1000A). The current vs. voltage and luminance vs. voltage characteristics were systematically degraded with increasing surface roughness. Furthermore, the retention test clearly presented that the reliability of OLED devices was directly influenced with the surface roughness, which could be interpreted in terms of the concentration of the electric field on the weak and thin organic layers caused by the poor step coverage.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.22-31
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• 2009

전 세계는 온실가스의 배출을 줄이기 위한 방안의 하나로 전 에너지 소비의 약 20%를 차지하고 있는 조명의 고효율화를 위한 노력을 다각적으로 벌이고 있으며, 그러한 노력의 일환으로 지난 100년간 사용되어온 백열등이 낮은 효율로 인하여 사용규제 논의의 대상이 되고 있다. 반면, 효율은 백열등의 7~8배인 형광등은 높은 효율에도 불구하고 수은과 납이 함유되어 중금속 사용규제(RoHs, WEEE)로 인하여 그 사용이 규제될 계획이다. 따라서, 백열등과 형광등의 빈자리를 채울 수 있는 친환경 차세대 조명에 대한 수요가 확대되고 있어 LED, OLED와 같은 반도체 조명에 대한 개발이 확대되고 있다. 본 기고서에서는 차세대 조명 중에서 OLED 기술을 기반으로 한 OLED 조명 기술과 선진국 및 선진산업체의 개발 동향을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 2012

Depth sensitivity is considered one of the factors influencing 3D displays the most. In this paper, the perceptual 3D depth was quantitatively measured to compare the depth difference among the display devices. No difference was found in the typical display performance among the devices, but the subjective evaluation of the depth sensitivity where the disparity was varied showed that the organic light emitting diode (OLED) had the highest performance, mainly due to its almost 0% crosstalk, one of the features of OLED. Crosstalk is a form of image superposition that greatly affects the depth sensitivity. The experiment results showed that the quantitative depth sensitivity varies due to geometric factors such as disparity, viewing distance, and subjective sensitivity, depending on the display image characteristics, such as crosstalk and contrast.