• 文献标题:   Flexible and Transparent Graphene Electrode Architecture with Selective Defect Decoration for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PARK IJ, KIM TI, YOON T, KANG S, CHO H, CHO NS, LEE JI, KIM TS, CHOI SY
  • 作者关键词:   cvd graphene, defect healing, electrode architecture, flexible display, transparent conductor
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1616-301X EI 1616-3028
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Adv Inst Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1002/adfm.201704435
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Graphene produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has attracted great interest as a transparent conducting material, due to its extraordinary characteristics such as flexibility, optical transparency, and high conductivity, especially in next-generation displays. Graphene-based novel electrodes have the potential to satisfy the important factors for high-performance flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in terms of sheet resistance, transmittance, work function, and surface roughness. In this study, flexible and transparent graphene electrode architecture is proposed by adopting a selective defect healing technique for CVD-grown graphene, which results in several benefits that produce high-performance devices with excellent stabilities. The proposed architecture, which has a multi-layer graphene structure treated by a layer-by-layer healing process, exhibits significant improvement in sheet resistance with high optical transparency. For improving the charge transport property and mechanical robustness, various defect sites of the CVD-grown graphene are successfully decorated with gold nanoparticles through a simple electroplating (EP) method. Further, a graphene-based OLED device that integrates the proposed electrode architecture on flexible substrates is demonstrated. Therefore, this architecture provides a new strategy to fabricate graphene electrode in OLEDs, extending graphene's immense potential as an advanced conductor toward high-performance, flexible, and transparent displays.