Fundamentals in Organic Light Emitting Diodes

晶体管和激光器等固态电子设备一直在不断改变我们今天生活的社会。然而，固态发光器件并没有征服爱迪生的白炽灯泡。灯泡是相当浪费的;大约98%的能量输入最终以热量而不是光的形式结束。美国能源部估计，如果广泛采用节能固态照明，将节省约190太瓦时的能源，这将减少绿色房屋3140万公吨的碳排放。该提案的重点是研究表面和界面材料，这是开发简单高效的有机发光二极管（OLED）的关键，从而有助于加速从灯泡到固态照明的过渡。具体来说，这一建议NSERC发现研究计划

Solid-state electronic devices such as transistors and lasers have been continuously transforming the society we live in today. Solid-state light-emitting devices, however, has not conquered Edison's incandescent light bulbs. The light bulbs are quite wasteful; some 98% of the energy input ends up as heat instead of light. US department of Energy has estimated that energy efficient solid-state lightings, if broadly adopted, would provide approximately 190 terawatt-hours in energy saving, which would reduce green house emissions by 31.4 million metric tons of carbon. This proposal is to focus on studying surface and interface materials which are key to develop simple and efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and thus would help accelerate the transition from bulb to solid-state lightings. Specifically, this proposed NSERC discovery research program