Enhanced performance of organic light-emitting devices by atmospheric plasma treatment of indium tin oxide surfaces

I. Min Chan; Weng Cheng Cheng; Franklin C. Hong

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Enhanced performance of organic light-emitting devices by atmospheric plasma treatment of indium tin oxide surfaces

I. Min Chan, Weng Cheng Cheng, Franklin C. Hong

Department of Chemical Engineering

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Atmospheric plasma treatment of indium tin oxide (ITO) surfaces has been studied and demonstrated to be the most efficient method in improving the performance of vacuum-deposited double-layer organic light-emitting diode devices, among various plasma treatment methods including low-pressure Ar plasma and low-pressure O₂ plasma treatment. Although with a current-voltage characteristic close to low-pressure O₂ plasma treatment, the atmospheric plasma treatment exhibits a 40% increase of electroluminescence efficiency. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results show that the atmospheric plasma treatment increases the work function and reduces the carbon contamination of ITO surfaces. Our results suggest that atmospheric plasma treatment is a cheaper, more convenient, and more efficient method than low-pressure O₂ plasma treatment for improving device performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13-15
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	80
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1428624
Publication status	Published - 2002 Jan 7

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