陈崧教授与香港城市大学Sai-Wing Tsang教授合作在 ACS Nano 上发表研究论文

Origin of Subthreshold Turn-On in QuantumDot Light-Emitting Diodes

Huixia Luo†,#, Wenjuan Zhang†,#, Menglin Li, Yixing Yang§, Mingxuan Guo, Sai-Wing Tsang*,‡, and Song Chen*,†(陈崧)

  

College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China§ TCL Corporate Research, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052, China

# These authors contributed equally

  

ACS Nano2019, 13, 8229--8236

  

The subthreshold (or sub-bandgap) turn-on for electroluminescence is one of the most discussed, but often misinterpreted, phenomena for solution-processed quantum-dot light-emitting diodes. Here, multiple techniques are applied to show that the phenomenon can be readily explained using the fundamental rules of carrier injection and transport. Evident from temperature dependent photovoltage measurements, it is found that the energy up-conversion originating from the decay of charge transfer excitons is not responsible for the subthreshold turn-on. Further analysis using electroabsorption reveals that the turn-on voltage of electroluminescence consistently correlates with the flat-band voltage of the emission layer. Under such subthreshold bias, although the device current is still limited by the depleted hole-transporting layer, field-assisted carrier injection starts to provide enough electrons and holes for detectable radiative recombination, thereby enabling distinct subthreshold turn-on.

  

  

链接:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b03507