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16-11-2019
Effects of embedded SiO2 nanoparticles on the moisture barrier performance of inorganic/organic laminates
Published in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | Issue 24/2019
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Abstract
Thin-film encapsulation (TFE) is essential and challenging for flexible organic/quantum dot light-emitting diodes (OLEDs/QLEDs). In this work, SiO2 nanoparticles were added into the NEA 121 polymer (s-NEA) to prolong the permeation pathways, showing good barrier property and high optical transparency. With increasing the concentration of SiO2 nanoparticles up to 20 mg/ml, the value of water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) decreased. A single s-NEA layer with silica concentration of 20 mg/ml and thickness of ~ 75 µm exhibited WVTR of 2.5 × 10−3 g/m2/day and light transmittance of above 80%. Al2O3 thin films fabricated using atomic layer deposition were inserted between s-NEA layers to form dyad-style Al2O3/s-NEA multilayers. The Al2O3 (60 nm)/s-NEA (20 µm) multilayers with 3 units exhibited WVTR of 2.6 × 10−5 g/m2/day and consistently demonstrated a significantly extended QLED lifetime.