Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence Confocal Imaging of an OLED

In recent years organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become one of the leading technologies for full-colour display panels in high-end smartphones and televisions. This rapid growth in use has occurred because OLEDs offer an all-around superior performance to liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For example, they are thinner, lighter, more flexible, less power consumptive, and brighter. <br/>When new OLEDs are developed, the optoelectronic properties of individual components and the complete device can be characterised using photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) spectroscopy. In this poster presentation, we use a confocal Raman microscope to characterise and spatially resolve the optoelectronic properties of a fabricated OLED device with four imaging modalities: PL, EL, time-resolved PL (TRPL), and time-resolved EL (TREL). Using a confocal microscope to characterise an OLED's spectral and time-resolved properties provides much greater detail than bulk measurements.