Optical Capacitance/Conductance-Voltage Characteristics of Stored Charges in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Abstract

In this paper, capacitance/conductance-voltage characteristics (C/G-V) under illumination was achieved to investigate the dynamic mechanism of stored charges in OLEDs with a structure of ITO/ PEDOT:PSS/PMMA/Alq3/Al. For all devices, at least two peaks presented in the optical capacitance-voltage curve. Compared to curves of devices under dark, the first peak increased remarkably with a deviation to Vbi, which can be explained in the form of stored charges combined with the optical conductance characteristics. It was also found that a great decrease in capacitance is followed by the collapse of the first peak with PMMA thickness increased. It can account for the presence of interfacial charges, which is proved further by the conductance curves. To the device with 10 nm PMMA, a third peak took place in optical capacitance and it was due to the storage of electrons by PMMA. Also, the first capacitance peak enhanced approximate linearly as the illumination power increased, which can verify the contribution of the stored charges. Additionally, it shows the potential for the stored charges in optical detections.