To achieve fabrication and cost competitiveness in organic optoelectronic devices that include organic solar cells(OSCs)and organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs),it is desirable to have one type of material that can si...To achieve fabrication and cost competitiveness in organic optoelectronic devices that include organic solar cells(OSCs)and organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs),it is desirable to have one type of material that can simultaneously function as both the electron and hole transport layers(ETLs and HTLs)of the organic devices in all device architectures(i.e.,normal and inverted architectures).We address this issue by proposing and demonstrating Cs-intercalated metal oxides(with various Cs mole ratios)as both the ETL and HTL of an organic optoelectronic device with normal and inverted device architectures.Our results demonstrate that the new approach works well for widely used transition metal oxides of molybdenum oxide(MoOx)and vanadium oxide(V_(2)O_(x)).Moreover,the Cs-intercalated metaloxide-based ETL and HTL can be easily formed under the conditions of a room temperature,water-free and solution-based process.These conditions favor practical applications of OSCs and OLEDs.Notably,with the analyses of the Kelvin Probe System,our approach of Cs-intercalated metal oxides with a wide mole ratio range of transition metals(Mo or V)/Cs from 1:0 to 1:0.75 can offer significant and continuous work function tuning as large as 1.31 eV for functioning as both an ETL and HTL.Consequently,our method of intercalated metal oxides can contribute to the emerging large-scale and low-cost organic optoelectronic devices.展开更多
基金ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.60736005 and No.60425101-1）, the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.60721001）, the Provincial Program （No.9140A02060609DZ0208）, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University （No.NCET- 06-0812）, the Project Sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry （No.GGRYJJ08P 05）, and the Young Excellence Project of Sichuan （No.09ZQ026-074）.
基金This study was supported by the University Grant Council of the University of Hong Kong(Grant Nos.10401466 and 201111159062)the General Research Fund(Grant Nos.HKU711813 and HKU711612E)+1 种基金an RGC-NSFC grant(N_HKU709/12)grant CAS14601 from the CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories.
文摘To achieve fabrication and cost competitiveness in organic optoelectronic devices that include organic solar cells(OSCs)and organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs),it is desirable to have one type of material that can simultaneously function as both the electron and hole transport layers(ETLs and HTLs)of the organic devices in all device architectures(i.e.,normal and inverted architectures).We address this issue by proposing and demonstrating Cs-intercalated metal oxides(with various Cs mole ratios)as both the ETL and HTL of an organic optoelectronic device with normal and inverted device architectures.Our results demonstrate that the new approach works well for widely used transition metal oxides of molybdenum oxide(MoOx)and vanadium oxide(V_(2)O_(x)).Moreover,the Cs-intercalated metaloxide-based ETL and HTL can be easily formed under the conditions of a room temperature,water-free and solution-based process.These conditions favor practical applications of OSCs and OLEDs.Notably,with the analyses of the Kelvin Probe System,our approach of Cs-intercalated metal oxides with a wide mole ratio range of transition metals(Mo or V)/Cs from 1:0 to 1:0.75 can offer significant and continuous work function tuning as large as 1.31 eV for functioning as both an ETL and HTL.Consequently,our method of intercalated metal oxides can contribute to the emerging large-scale and low-cost organic optoelectronic devices.
