I-Corps: Idealized Electrodes on Organic Semiconductors

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发低成本有机发光二极管（OLED）。这种有机发光二极管（OLED）的经济性提高，可以使这种照明更接近于在高效商业照明或低成本显示器（如显示器和计算器）中具有竞争力所需的价格点。现有OLED产品（手机、电视）成本的降低也将给用户带来巨大的好处。I-Corps项目的前提是，OLED堆叠中材料之间的低效界面是性能损失的重要来源。因此，必须使用多余的材料（或者必须应用昂贵的工作）来保持可接受的性能，但成本更高。评估以工业相关方式改善界面问题的替代技术的适用性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to develop a low-cost organic light emitting diode (OLED). The improved economics of this OLED could bring this lighting closer to the price point required to be competitive in high-efficiency commercial lighting or in low-cost displays, such as monitors and calculators. Reduced cost in existing OLED products (phones, TVs) will also prove a significant boon for users.This I-Corps project is based on the premise that inefficient interfaces between materials within the OLED stack are a significant source of performance loss. As a result, excess materials must be used (or expensive work arounds must be applied) to maintain an acceptable performance, but at a higher cost. The suitability of alternative technologies to improve interfacial issues in an industrial relevant manner is evaluated.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.