Superior performance of organic light-emitting diodes with microcavity effect

The electro-optics characteristics of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with microcavity effect were investigated. The transmittance of the substrate with Ag anode was lower than that of the indium-tin-oxide (ITO) anode due to the opaque characteristics of Ag. The current density of the device with Ag anode was high due to the low sheet resistance of Ag anode. The current efficiency of the device with Ag anode was high due to microcavity structure between Ag anode and Al cathode. Especially, the devices of Ag anode show over 43% higher current efficiency than that of conventional ITO anode. The low transmittance of Ag anode using microcavity effect realized as one kind of Fabry-Perot filters was also verified.