Light hole-transporting layer

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The simplest manifestation of an OLED is a sandwich structure consisting of an emission layer (EML) between an anode and a cathode. More typical is an increased complexity OLED structure consisting of an anode, an anode buffer or hole injection layer (HIL), a hole transport layer (HTL), a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer (ETL), a cathode... 

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Figure 3.26. Structure of an OLED. S = substrate (glass), ANO = anode (e.g., ITO — indium tin oxide), HIL = hole injection layer (e.g., Cu phthalocyanine), HTL = hole transport layer, EML = emission layer, ETL = electron transport layer, EIL = electron injection layer (e.g., LiF), KAT = cathode (e.g., Ag Mg, Al). The light that is generated by the recombination of holes and electrons is coupled out via the transparent anode.

A typical vaponr deposited EL device consists of a glass snbstrate coated with a conducting transparent indinm tin oxide electrode, on top of which is a 100-500 A hole transport layer (HTL), followed by a thin (= 100 A) light emitting layer (EML), then a 100-500 A electron transport layer (ETL) and finally a cathode of an alloy such as Mg Ag. This is illustrated in Fignre 3.32. 

Fig. 11 shows the photoswitching of the injection current. Upon UV irradiation, the hole injection current increased, while decreasing to zero on irradiation with visible light. Very thin amorphous diarylethene film as thin as 0.2 pm could also control the hole injection to the organic hole transport layer (Fig. 9b). These results are potentially applicable to optical memory-type organic photoconductors.

A thin film ( 100 nm) of a polymer hole-transport layer (HTL) supports a second thin film of a polymer electron-transport layer (ETL) sandwiched between two electrodes supported on a substrate, see Figures 6.2 and 6.3. The anode is transparent in order to allow the passage of the light generated. A potential can be applied between the electrodes. The metal cathode has a low... 

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