Research Article

Organic Light-Emitting Diode with Color Tunable between Bluish-White Daylight and Orange-White Dusk Hue

Table 1

Effects of dopant concentration and carrier modulating layer thickness on the color temperature span, color temperature, and color rendering index of the sunlight-style OLED devices studied.

DeviceDopant concentration [wt%]CML thickness
  (nm)
  CT span (K)  CT (K) CRI  Power efficiency
(lm/W)
  Current efficiency
(cd/A)
 1931 CIE coordinates Operating
 voltage (V)
 Maximum
  luminance (cd/m2)
Ist EMLIInd EML
Yellow Red Blue @100/l,000 cd/m2

I-120.3102,460–9,3402,980/4,53084.3/80.84.0/2.75.7/5.4(0.42, 0.38)/(0.35, 0.35)4.5/6.110,800
I-220.5102,170–8,9902,940/4,41085.2/82.14.0/2.45.7/4.7(0.43, 0.38)/(0.36, 0.35)4.5/6.210,270
I-340.5152,290–9,2802,980/4,54080.7/84.43.9/3.15.7/6.0(0.42, 0.38)/(0.35, 0.35)4.6/6.210,160

II-120.31032,900–4,8903,060/3,87083.6/84.54.3/2.95.9/6.0(0.42, 0.38)/(0.38, 0.37)4.3/6.44,990
II-220.31052,570–4,2702,860/3,38080.1/82.04.5/2.76.3/5.7(0.44, 0.39)/(0.41, 0.38)4.5/6.64,750