Organic Light Investigation of organic materials

and prototyping of organic light

Emitting Diode emitting diodes (OLED) for
innovative screens and lighting
(OLED) applications

Materize is highly competent in

organic materials. This includes both
sides: original material research, as
well as technical possibilities to
fabricate experimental devices for
various organic materials'
applications. Also, broad options of
characterization of materials and
devices are available.

Organic materials are used in many

innovative applications as organic
light emitting diodes (OLED) for
screens and lighting devices,
transparent and flexible organic
photovoltaics (OPV), optical
modulators etc. Our modern
infrastructure allows working with any
application of organic materials.

Emitting surface OLED PROTOTYPING

Electrode
Electron injection layer In our OLED example you will see
Electron transport layer many of our possibilities.

Hole transport layer

Emitting layer
We will make and characterize an
organic light emitting diode after the
Hole injection layer
particular design seen below. The
Thickness of each layer varies from
Electrode
0.5nm to 200nm.
Substrate (glass, plastic)

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CLEANROOMS
The fabrication of the OLED device takes place in our
cleanrooms with an ISO classification of 7-8.
We have the only classified laboratory cleanrooms in
Latvia; suitable for the setting up of the material
acquisition technologies and research in materials
science and nanomaterials.
MATERIAL SELECTION
To fabricate your own device, we can offer you
commercially available materials to work with, or you are
welcome to bring your own materials. We also have a
broad collaboration with chemists from many countries,
enabling us to develop new original organic materials. In
the case pictured here we used original light emitting
material for OLED, synthesized by our partners - chemists
from Riga Technical University.
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SUBSTRATE PREPARATION
The substrates have been cleaned up to standard,
including an ultrasonic bath and ozoniser.
For our OLED we use transparent ITO substrates to
form bottom electrode but other different materials
can be used and any shape of bottom electrode
can be made.
WET CASTING OF MATERIALS
We use several methods to produce all the required
layers for our device. One of the methods is wet
chemical coating. For materials that can be harmed by
oxygen a wet chemical coating can be done in inert
atmosphere (Ar), as it was in our OLED case. For that
reason we have a spincoater placed in the glowbox and,
also, all solutions are prepared in the glowbox.
If we need to transport the device to other systems we
use a specially designed box, thus we can ensure that
devices stay in Ar atmosphere.
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SUBLIMATION OF MATERIALS

Other methods for thin layers fabrication include thermal

evaporation in vacuum. We have decades of experience
in thin film preparation by material thermal evaporation in
vacuum. The thermal evaporation in vacuum of organic
and metallic materials can be combined with magnetron
sputtering and plasma cleaning methods in SAF 25/50
vacuum coating cluster system located in the clean-room
facilities where devices are easily transported in-between
various process chambers by automatic manipulator. All
processes are managed through control software.

First we add a sublime organic layer, then the upper

metallic electrode. In our case it is aluminium, but we can
make thin films of many metals. During the sublimation
process we can control thickness, sublimation rate and
substrate temperature. In our cluster system, we can
reach a vacuum of 1x10-6mbar.

ENCAPSULATION

Our OLED device is ready after encapsulating in

protective layer done in glowbox with inert Ar
atmosphere.

To fabricate an organic layer and upper electrode for our

OLED in this case we use the SAF 25/50 vacuum coating
cluster. We put the device in the system through glowbox
to ensure an inert atmosphere.

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 CHARACTERIZATION

For OLED devices we can measure

electroluminescence and photoluminescence,
we can also determine the colour of
electroluminescence in CIE coordinates.

We also determine current-voltage-brightness

characteristics which gives us information about
the efficiency of our device (current and power
efficiency). Knowing all characteristics, we can
tell whether the OLED we have made is better
than those in the market.

0.9 100 1400

520
1.0
0.8 90
540 1200
80
0.7
Emission intensity (a.U.)

0.8
560 1000
70
0.6
540 60
0.6 0.5 580 800
Zwk-2
50
0.4 Zwk-1
600 600
0.4 40
620
0.3 700
490 30 400
0.2 0.2
20
480 200
0.1 10
0.0 Wavelength (nm) 470
460
0.0 0 0
380 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850 900 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8
Voltage (V)

MATERIAL RESEARCH MORPHOLOGY

Prior to our OLED fabrication we make: We also do analysis of morphology of all

Ionization energy measurements deposited layers using a high resolution
(photoelectron spectroscopy method, optical microscope (Fig A) and scanning
determination of the energy structure of electron microscope (Fig B).
materials forming OLED), Electron affinity
Fig A Fig B
energy determination (Spectral dependence
of intrinsic photoconductivity, determination
of the energy structure of materials forming
OLED), Luminescence spectra
measurements (determination of emission
spectra of compound), Photoluminescence
quantum yield determination (determination
of the highest possible efficiency of OLED),
Charge carrier mobility determination (Time 50 �m 20 �m
of Flight technique).

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