Abstract:
Organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs) using TiO
2 ultra-thin films as a hole injecting buffer layer of different thicknesses were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering. The diodes with a typical structure of ITO/TiO
2/TPD/Alq
3/Al(TPD : N,N’-diphenyl-N,N’-bis(3-methylphenyl)-1,1’-diphenyl-4,4’-diamine, Alq
3: tris(8-quinolinolato)-aluminum) show better electroluminescent properties in comparison with the samples without TiO
2 buffer layer. The investigation on the effects of the thickness for TiO
2 shows that EL efficiency of the device, which contains 1 nm TiO
2 buffer layer, is improved to 2 cd/A by approximately 100% in comparison with the device without buffer layer at the current density of 100mA/cm
2. It can be attributed to the limit of the injecting number of hole and the improvement of the balance of hole and electron injections by the TiO
2 ultra-thin film with suitable thickness as a hole buffer layer.