Architectural design, fabrication techniques, characteristics parameters and different applications for OLED along with some OTFT driven OLEDs: A review

Abstract

In consumer electronics, Organic LED (OLED) has become mainstream display technology. Using organic materials, opto-electronics devices have become extensively desirable for various reasons. One of the fundamental properties i.e., flexibility permits to fabricate electronic circuits on flexible substrates to make these devices bendable and stretchable. This paper provides a review on various terms of OLED like fabrication methods, operation of OLED, its categorization, few OTFT driven OLEDs, stability issues of white OLED and various applications of OLED based on sensors, display, and lighting. Different lighting devices like incandescent bulb, tube light, CFL, LED and OLED are compared on the basis of their efficiency and lifetime. The comparison highlights that the LED provides good lifetime, however, for OLED it depends on the organic semiconducting materials responsible for emission. Different layers such as charge injection layers, transport layers and blocking layer to refine the properties of organic LEDs are also studied and compared. Addition to this, a low-cost methodology is also incorporated for the fabrication of flexible devices.