dc.contributor |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica |
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Universität Stuttgart |
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Puigdollers i González, Joaquim |
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Radusch, Jirka |
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Lungu, Alexandru-Andrei |
dc.date |
2014-09-28 |
dc.identifier.citation |
ETSETB-230.102869 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/24863 |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
dc.rights |
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dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.subject |
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Microelectrònica |
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Microelectronics |
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Nanoparticles |
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OLED |
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nanoelectronics |
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nanoelectronica |
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Microelectrònica |
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Nanopartícules |
dc.title |
Development of Vapor Deposition Processes for OLEDs |
dc.title |
Desarrollo de los procesos de deposición con vapor para la creación de OLEDs |
dc.title |
Desenvolupament dels processos de deposició amb vapor per la creació d'OLEDs |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis |
dc.description.abstract |
This bachelor thesis describes the development of vapour deposition processes for the creation
of a warm white OLED. An OLED is a layer or a stack of organic materials situated
between two electrodes, which emits light when an electric current is injected into the
device.
The thesis starts with a short introduction about the history of the OLED, its main uses
today (lightning and displays) and the disadvantages of the technology, such as lifetime,
manufacturing costs and encapsulation.
Right after the introduction, a set of basic concepts are introduced with the purpose of
facilitating the understanding of the thesis’s contents. A short explanation about how a
basic OLED stack emits light after an electron and hole recombine, is followed by a list
of layers that are common to a modern OLED stack. A list of processes used during the
experiments is also provided with a description for each one of them. This part ends with
the introduction of some basic concepts about color and photometric quantities used during
the thesis to better describe the OLEDs.
Once the basic concepts have been introduced, the thesis follows by explaining the setup
of the experimental environment. To operate the evaporation machine, a couple of recipes
(sets of routines) have been developed for different purposes prior to the experiments. One
such purpose is the calculation of the tooling factor for each of the sources, a parameter
critical to the whole process to ensure that the thickness of the deposited material is the
desired one.
The main part of the thesis follows right after that. It describes the development of the
OLED stack starting with a simple, basic stack. The first OLEDs created can be greatly
improved upon by doping some of the layers to achieve better probability for electron-hole
recombination. Doping the layers led to noticeable improvements in lifetime, brightness
and efficiency. The next step in further improving the efficiency and changing the color
of the OLED to the desired one, is to dope the emitting layer. This decision again led
to many improvements related to brightness and efficiency and the discovery of possible
current drain near the edges of the OLED. By creating a mask to achieve an insulation layer
on the edges, this problem not only has been avoided but some efficiency and brightness
improvements have been noticed again.
The thesis closes with a short discussion about the results, problems encountered during
the development of the thesis and a list of suggestions on how to improve the OLED’s
capabilities even further. |