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Thesis (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Fotis A. Papoulias. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61). Also available online.

A necessidade de transmissão de canais modulados a taxas a partir de 400 Gb/s tem motivado a pesquisa e os esforços relativos às tecnologias de camada física habilitadores desta alta capacidade. A atenção se volta, principalmente, aos frontends (transmissores e receptores), aliados aos processadores digitais de sinal (Digital Signal Processors, DSPs), às técnicas de amplificação óptica e a novos tipos de fibra óptica. Em particular a técnica baseada no emprego de filtros de Nyquist combinados à multiplexação de comprimentos de onda (Wavelength Division Multiplexing, DWM), conhecida como Nyquist-WDM, ou N-WDM, tem atraído grande interesse para geração de supercanais ópticos, hoje um dos elementos chave nos sistemas de redes ópticas. O estudo dos fundamentos e casos particulares dos filtros de Nyquist são aprofundados nesta dissertação para o controle de seus parâmetros, em especial o parâmetro conhecido como fator de roll-off, em aplicações que requerem flexibilidade na ocupação espectral e até o reaproveitamento das limitações do filtro para atenuar alguns efeitos lineares e não lineares na fibra. A técnica utiliza um tipo de formatação geométrica de pulso e é limitada pelo ajuste grosso do fator de roll-off, mas como abordagem inicial, permite estabelecer uma série de compromissos na concepção do circuito eletrônico de um transponder sintonizável. Uma investigação teórica foi feita em um sistema PM-16QAM de 21x256 Gb/s, a partir de dados experimentais obtidos com roll-off igual 0,1, para análise do efeito no desempenho sistêmico do ajuste do excesso de largura de banda (em relação à banda de Nyquist) de um filtro formatador de pulso. O fator de roll-off foi ajustado e seu impacto no desempenho do sistema, em termos de alcance, foi verificado. A partir dos resultados, foi observado que, desde que a taxa de erro de bit, BER, esteja dentro do limite do código corretor de erro (forward error corrector, FEC), o valor de roll-off pode ser ajustado para um valor ótimo de acordo com a configuração do sistema e as metas requeridas. Uma vez encontrada a relação entre a BER e o fator de roll-off, foi possível determinar um fator de mérito que relaciona a resolução do filtro de Nyquist, em função do número de taps que ele emprega, o consumo de energia da DSP e, consequentemente, a BER. O compromisso assim estabelecido entre o desempenho sistêmico, o consumo de energia e o fator de roll-off representa a principal contribuição desta dissertação. / The need for transmission of channels modulated at rates greater than 400 Gb/s has motivated the research and efforts related to the physical layer technologies that will enable this high capacity. The attention turns mainly to the frontends (transmitters and receivers), allied to digital signal processors (DSPs), optical amplification techniques and new types of optical fiber. The technique based on the use of Nyquist filters combined withWavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), known as Nyquist-WDM, or N-WDM, has attracted great interest for the generation of optical super-channels, today one of the key elements in optical network systems. The study of the fundamentals and particular cases of the Nyquist filters are detailed in this dissertation for mastering the control of the parameters, especially the parameter known as roll-off factor, for applications that require flexibility in the spectral occupation and even the reutilization of the limitations of the filter to attenuate some linear and non-linear effects on the fiber. The technique uses a geometric type of pulse-shaping, and is limited by the roll-off factor tunning, but as an initial approach, it allows to establish a series of compensations in the design of the electronic circuit of a tunable transponder. A theoretical investigation was made on a 21x256 Gb/s PM-16QAM system, taken as reference the experimental data obtained with roll-off equal to 0.1, to analyze the effects of adjusting the excess bandwidth (relative to the Nyquist band) of a pulse-shaping filter. The roll-off factor was tunned and its impact on the system performance in terms of range effects was verified. From the results, it was observed that, as long as the bit error ratio, BER, is within the FEC limit, the roll-off parameter can be set to an optimum value according to the system configuration and required targets. Once the relationship between the BER and the roll-off factor was found, it was possible to determine a merit factor that relates the resolution of the Nyquist filter, as a function of the number of taps it uses, the energy consumption of the DSP and, consequently, the BER. The compromise thus established between system performance, energy consumption and roll off represents the main contribution of this work.

This work focusses on the advances of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for large area display and solid-state-lighting applications. OLED technology has matured over the past two decades, aided by the rapid advances in development of the novel material and device concepts. State-of-the-art OLEDs reach internal efficiencies of 100% and device lifetimes acceptable for commercial display applications. However, further improvements in the blue emitter stability and the device performance at the high brightness are essential for OLED technology to secure its place in the lighting market. As the current passing through the device increases, a rapid decrease in OLED efficiency, so-called efficiency roll-off, takes place, which hinders the use of OLEDs wherever high brightness is required. In addition, white OLEDs comprising multiple emitter molecules suffer from the emission colour change as the operating conditions are varied or as the devices age. Despite side-by-side structuring of the monochrome OLEDs could in principle circumvent most of bespoke issues, the limitations imposed by the shadow mask technique, employed to structure vacuum deposited films, renders such approach impractical for fabrication of the devices on a large scale. In order to address these issues, photolithographic patterning of OLEDs is implemented. Highly efficient state-of-the-art devices are successfully structured down to tens of micrometers with the aid of orthogonal lithographic processing. The latter is shown to be a promising alternative for the shadow mask method in order to fabricate the full-colour RGB displays and solid-state-lighting panels. Photo-patterned devices exhibit a virtually identical performance to their shadow mask counterparts on a large scale. The high performance is replicated in the microscale OLEDs by a careful selection of functional layer sequence based on the investigation of the morphological stability and solubility of vacuum deposited films. Microstructured OLEDs, fabricated in several different configurations, are investigated and compared to their large area counterparts in order to account for the observed differences in charge transport, heat management and exciton recombination in bespoke devices. The role of the Joule heat leading to the quenching of the emissive exciton states in working devices is discussed. Structuring the active OLED area down to 20 micrometer is shown to improve the thermal dissipation in such devices, thus enabling the suppression of the efficiency roll-off at high brightness in white-emitting electroluminescent devices based on side-by-side patterned OLEDs. / Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den neusten Errungenschaften von organischen Licht-emittierenden Dioden (OLEDs) für großflächige Beleuchtungs- und Displayanwendungen. Die OLED-Technologie hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten, begünstigt von neuartigen Material- und Bauteilkonzepten, weit entwickelt. Im aktuellen Stand der Technik erreichen OLEDs sowohl interne Effizienzen von 100% als auch Lebensdauern die für die kommerzielle Nutzung in Displays ausreichend sind. Nichtsdestotrotz sind weitere Verbesserungen für die Stabilität blauer Emitter und die Leistungsfähigkeit bei hohen Leuchtstärken erforderlich, damit die OLED Technologie ihren Platz auf dem Markt behaupten kann. Mit steigender Stromstärke, die durch ein solches Bauteil fließt, sinkt die Effizienz rapide (der sogenannte Effizienz-Roll-Off), was die Nutzung von OLEDs verhindert, wann immer hohe Leuchtstärken erforderlich sind. Zusätzlich verändern weiße OLEDs ihre Farbkomposition durch die unterschiedliche Alterung der unterschiedlichen Emittermoleküle oder veränderte Einsatzbedingungen. Obwohl die laterale Strukturierung nebeneinander aufgebrachter, monochromer OLEDs diese Probleme umgehen könnte, ist diese Herangehensweise durch die aktuelle Schattenmasken-Technologie limitiert, welche zur Strukturierung vakuumprozessierter Dünnschichten eingesetzt wird, und somit unpraktikabel für die Massenproduktion. Um diese Problemstellungen zu umgehen, wird hier die photolithographische Strukturierung von OLEDs angewendet. Mithilfe der orthogonalen Lithographie können hocheffiziente Bauteile damit erfolgreich auf Größenordnungen von 10 Mikrometer strukturiert werden. Dies zeigt, dass die orthogonale Prozessierung eine vielversprechende Alternative für die Schattenmasken-Technologie darstellt und für die Herstellung von RGB-Displays und Beleuchtungspanelen geeignet ist. Photostrukturierte Bauteile zeigen dabei eine nahezu identische Leistungsfähigkeit zu solchen, die großffächig mittels Schattenmasken hergestellt wurden. Diese hohe Leistungsfähigkeit kann hierbei durch eine sorgfältige Auswahl der einzelnen funktionellen Schichten erreicht werden, welche auf Untersuchung von morphologischer Stabilität und Löslichkeit dieser Schichten basiert. Mikrostrukturierte OLEDs in verschiedenen Konfigurationen werden mit ihren großflächigen Gegenstücken verglichen, um beobachtete Abweichungen im Ladungstransport, der Wärmeverteilung, sowie der Exzitonenrekombination zu erklären. Die Rolle der Joule'schen Wärme, die zur Auslöschung der emittierenden Exzitonenzustände führt, wird hier diskutiert. Die thermische Dissipation kann dabei verbessert werden, indem die aktive Fläche der OLED auf 20 Mikrometer herunterstrukturiert wird. Folglich kann der Effizienz-Roll-Off bei hohen Leuchtstärken in lateral strukturierten weißen elektrolumineszenten Bauteilen unterdrückt werden.

A necessidade de transmissão de canais modulados a taxas a partir de 400 Gb/s tem motivado a pesquisa e os esforços relativos às tecnologias de camada física habilitadores desta alta capacidade. A atenção se volta, principalmente, aos frontends (transmissores e receptores), aliados aos processadores digitais de sinal (Digital Signal Processors, DSPs), às técnicas de amplificação óptica e a novos tipos de fibra óptica. Em particular a técnica baseada no emprego de filtros de Nyquist combinados à multiplexação de comprimentos de onda (Wavelength Division Multiplexing, DWM), conhecida como Nyquist-WDM, ou N-WDM, tem atraído grande interesse para geração de supercanais ópticos, hoje um dos elementos chave nos sistemas de redes ópticas. O estudo dos fundamentos e casos particulares dos filtros de Nyquist são aprofundados nesta dissertação para o controle de seus parâmetros, em especial o parâmetro conhecido como fator de roll-off, em aplicações que requerem flexibilidade na ocupação espectral e até o reaproveitamento das limitações do filtro para atenuar alguns efeitos lineares e não lineares na fibra. A técnica utiliza um tipo de formatação geométrica de pulso e é limitada pelo ajuste grosso do fator de roll-off, mas como abordagem inicial, permite estabelecer uma série de compromissos na concepção do circuito eletrônico de um transponder sintonizável. Uma investigação teórica foi feita em um sistema PM-16QAM de 21x256 Gb/s, a partir de dados experimentais obtidos com roll-off igual 0,1, para análise do efeito no desempenho sistêmico do ajuste do excesso de largura de banda (em relação à banda de Nyquist) de um filtro formatador de pulso. O fator de roll-off foi ajustado e seu impacto no desempenho do sistema, em termos de alcance, foi verificado. A partir dos resultados, foi observado que, desde que a taxa de erro de bit, BER, esteja dentro do limite do código corretor de erro (forward error corrector, FEC), o valor de roll-off pode ser ajustado para um valor ótimo de acordo com a configuração do sistema e as metas requeridas. Uma vez encontrada a relação entre a BER e o fator de roll-off, foi possível determinar um fator de mérito que relaciona a resolução do filtro de Nyquist, em função do número de taps que ele emprega, o consumo de energia da DSP e, consequentemente, a BER. O compromisso assim estabelecido entre o desempenho sistêmico, o consumo de energia e o fator de roll-off representa a principal contribuição desta dissertação. / The need for transmission of channels modulated at rates greater than 400 Gb/s has motivated the research and efforts related to the physical layer technologies that will enable this high capacity. The attention turns mainly to the frontends (transmitters and receivers), allied to digital signal processors (DSPs), optical amplification techniques and new types of optical fiber. The technique based on the use of Nyquist filters combined withWavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), known as Nyquist-WDM, or N-WDM, has attracted great interest for the generation of optical super-channels, today one of the key elements in optical network systems. The study of the fundamentals and particular cases of the Nyquist filters are detailed in this dissertation for mastering the control of the parameters, especially the parameter known as roll-off factor, for applications that require flexibility in the spectral occupation and even the reutilization of the limitations of the filter to attenuate some linear and non-linear effects on the fiber. The technique uses a geometric type of pulse-shaping, and is limited by the roll-off factor tunning, but as an initial approach, it allows to establish a series of compensations in the design of the electronic circuit of a tunable transponder. A theoretical investigation was made on a 21x256 Gb/s PM-16QAM system, taken as reference the experimental data obtained with roll-off equal to 0.1, to analyze the effects of adjusting the excess bandwidth (relative to the Nyquist band) of a pulse-shaping filter. The roll-off factor was tunned and its impact on the system performance in terms of range effects was verified. From the results, it was observed that, as long as the bit error ratio, BER, is within the FEC limit, the roll-off parameter can be set to an optimum value according to the system configuration and required targets. Once the relationship between the BER and the roll-off factor was found, it was possible to determine a merit factor that relates the resolution of the Nyquist filter, as a function of the number of taps it uses, the energy consumption of the DSP and, consequently, the BER. The compromise thus established between system performance, energy consumption and roll off represents the main contribution of this work.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The purpose of this thesis is to lay the foundation for analyzing structural coupling effects for a proposed trolley interface between a ship and a roll-on roll-off discharge facility (RRDF). Such a facility could allow heavy cargo transfer at higher sea states. Previous studies have analyzed motions assuming that there is no structural coupling between the trolley and the RRDF. A mathematical model that incorporates structural coupling is developed using the principle of virtual work. In order to assess the degree of necessity for the proposed model we conduct a systematic series of numerical experiments. In these calculations we model the trolley through a generalized stiffness coefficient and assess its influence on RRDF motions. It is shown that modeling of structural coupling may be necessary depending on the relative order of magnitude of trolley structural rigidity and trolley placement. / Major, Republic of Singapore Navy

Multicarrier modulation is a transmission technique that is quite convenient for high data rates in wireless communication. Information symbols are partitioned and parallelly sent over multiple narrowband subchannels. Pulse shaping filters are critically important in multicarrier modulation for determining the characteristics of signal in time and frequency domains. In this thesis, we propose a new pulse shaping approach for multicarrier schemes to increase spectral efficiency in multi-user scenarios. Conventionally, the time-frequency lattice and the prototype filter are designed considering the worst-case of time-varying multipath channel. However, this approach ignores to make use of multi-user diversity and leads to excessive spacings between successive symbols in time and frequency. Unlike the prevalent methods, we investigate user-based filter utilization considering the wireless channel of each user individually to prevent over-design and improve spectral efficiency. Also, this approach is implemented in a denser time-frequency lattice design. Symbols are allowed to be overlapped (depending on time-frequency dispersion of their individual channels) as long as the signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) observed by all users are kept above a certain level. Employing user-specific filters to enhance SIR of the user exposed to the most interference provides more overlapping flexibility. Therefore, further improvement in spectral efficiency is achieved in our wireless communication system design.

Small open-deck roll-on/roll-off passenger ferries in Indonesia have a poor safety record. The Indonesian Government is interested in means by which the safety of these vessels can be improved, and this was the main catalyst for commencing research in this area. Any solution should be capable of being retrofitted to both existing vessels and new designs to improve their stability and, hence, their safety. The research therefore focused on the intact stability of the bare hulls, and with addition of side casings, for the vessels for which data was made available by the Indonesian Government. The research covered both quasi-static analysis, based on the objective of meeting the IMO intact stability criteria, and a dynamic approach using time-domain simulation in regular beam waves. A parametric study of the stability parameters of the twenty vessels demonstrated that, without the presence of side casings, the vessels had difficulties in complying with the IMO intact stability criteria. The problems were solved by introducing side casings (watertight spaces above the vehicle deck) either inboard of the vessel’s side-shell plating, or partially inboard and partially outboard of the side shell. The minimum extent (breadth) of side casings required was determined by iteration on each of the twenty vessels, incorporating variations in the height of the centre of gravity and loading conditions. The implementation of the minimum side casings showed that each vessel then met the IMO intact stability criteria. However, the assessment of the vessels’ dynamic stability characteristics using time-domain simulation provided inconsistent results for these vessels with side casings which met the IMO intact stability criteria. For some particular conditions, the existence and the different forms of side casings could decrease vessel survivability by increasing the roll motion amplitudes for both inside and outside casings and could lead the vessel to capsize. The results of the dynamic stability analysis also confirmed the vulnerability of small vessels with small stability parameters to large waves, and the different roll seakeeping behavior of the different vessel stability parameters.

Small open-deck roll-on/roll-off passenger ferries in Indonesia have a poor safety record. The Indonesian Government is interested in means by which the safety of these vessels can be improved, and this was the main catalyst for commencing research in this area. Any solution should be capable of being retrofitted to both existing vessels and new designs to improve their stability and, hence, their safety. The research therefore focused on the intact stability of the bare hulls, and with addition of side casings, for the vessels for which data was made available by the Indonesian Government. The research covered both quasi-static analysis, based on the objective of meeting the IMO intact stability criteria, and a dynamic approach using time-domain simulation in regular beam waves. A parametric study of the stability parameters of the twenty vessels demonstrated that, without the presence of side casings, the vessels had difficulties in complying with the IMO intact stability criteria. The problems were solved by introducing side casings (watertight spaces above the vehicle deck) either inboard of the vessel’s side-shell plating, or partially inboard and partially outboard of the side shell. The minimum extent (breadth) of side casings required was determined by iteration on each of the twenty vessels, incorporating variations in the height of the centre of gravity and loading conditions. The implementation of the minimum side casings showed that each vessel then met the IMO intact stability criteria. However, the assessment of the vessels’ dynamic stability characteristics using time-domain simulation provided inconsistent results for these vessels with side casings which met the IMO intact stability criteria. For some particular conditions, the existence and the different forms of side casings could decrease vessel survivability by increasing the roll motion amplitudes for both inside and outside casings and could lead the vessel to capsize. The results of the dynamic stability analysis also confirmed the vulnerability of small vessels with small stability parameters to large waves, and the different roll seakeeping behavior of the different vessel stability parameters.

This work focusses on the advances of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for large area display and solid-state-lighting applications. OLED technology has matured over the past two decades, aided by the rapid advances in development of the novel material and device concepts. State-of-the-art OLEDs reach internal efficiencies of 100% and device lifetimes acceptable for commercial display applications. However, further improvements in the blue emitter stability and the device performance at the high brightness are essential for OLED technology to secure its place in the lighting market. As the current passing through the device increases, a rapid decrease in OLED efficiency, so-called efficiency roll-off, takes place, which hinders the use of OLEDs wherever high brightness is required. In addition, white OLEDs comprising multiple emitter molecules suffer from the emission colour change as the operating conditions are varied or as the devices age. Despite side-by-side structuring of the monochrome OLEDs could in principle circumvent most of bespoke issues, the limitations imposed by the shadow mask technique, employed to structure vacuum deposited films, renders such approach impractical for fabrication of the devices on a large scale. In order to address these issues, photolithographic patterning of OLEDs is implemented. Highly efficient state-of-the-art devices are successfully structured down to tens of micrometers with the aid of orthogonal lithographic processing. The latter is shown to be a promising alternative for the shadow mask method in order to fabricate the full-colour RGB displays and solid-state-lighting panels. Photo-patterned devices exhibit a virtually identical performance to their shadow mask counterparts on a large scale. The high performance is replicated in the microscale OLEDs by a careful selection of functional layer sequence based on the investigation of the morphological stability and solubility of vacuum deposited films. Microstructured OLEDs, fabricated in several different configurations, are investigated and compared to their large area counterparts in order to account for the observed differences in charge transport, heat management and exciton recombination in bespoke devices. The role of the Joule heat leading to the quenching of the emissive exciton states in working devices is discussed. Structuring the active OLED area down to 20 micrometer is shown to improve the thermal dissipation in such devices, thus enabling the suppression of the efficiency roll-off at high brightness in white-emitting electroluminescent devices based on side-by-side patterned OLEDs.:List of Publications 1 1 Introduction 5 2 Organic Semiconductors 9 2.1 Molecular Bonding 9 2.1.1 Intramolecular Interactions 10 2.1.2 Intermolecular Interactions 17 2.2 Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors 23 2.2.1 Excited State Dynamics 26 2.3 Energy Transfer in Organic Solids 27 2.3.1 Förster Energy Transfer 29 2.3.2 Dexter Energy Transfer 30 2.4 Charge Transport Phenomena 31 2.4.1 Polarization and Energetic Disorder 31 2.4.2 Charge Transport Models 33 3 Electromagnetic Field Propagation in Layered Media 35 3.1 Maxwell's Equations 35 3.1.1 Wave Character of Electromagnetic Field 37 3.1.2 Energy of Electromagnetic Field 38 3.1.3 Boundary Conditions of Electromagnetic Fields 39 3.2 Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves 40 3.2.1 Total Internal Reflection 43 3.3 Guided Optical Waves 44 3.3.1 Modes of Planar Waveguide 45 3.3.2 Multilayer Waveguides 49 3.3.3 Mode Coupling 53 3.4 EM Field in Presence of Charges 55 3.4.1 Volume Plasmons 58 3.4.2 Surface Plasmon Polaritons 58 3.4.3 Localized Plasmons 62 4 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 65 4.1 Principle of Operation 65 4.1.1 Electroluminescence Efficiency 66 4.1.2 Charge Injection and Transport 66 4.1.3 Radiative Efficiency 68 4.1.4 Excited State Formation 69 4.1.5 Organic Emitters 71 4.1.6 Light Extraction 73 4.1.7 Efficiency Loss Mechanisms 74 4.2 Applications of OLEDs 76 4.2.1 Information Displays 76 4.2.2 Solid-State Lighting 77 4.2.3 OLED Based Sensors 77 4.3 OLED Structuring 79 4.3.1 Shadow Mask Patterning 79 4.3.2 Serial Printing 80 4.3.3 Unconventional Patterning Techniques 80 4.3.4 Photolithographic Patterning of OLEDs 81 4.3.5 Orthogonal Processing of Organic Semiconductors 83 5 Materials and Methods 87 5.1 Organic Functional Materials . 87 5.1.1 Hole Injection/Transport Layers 87 5.1.2 Electron Blocking Materials 88 5.1.3 Hole Blockers and Electron Transport Materials 88 5.1.4 Emitter Systems 90 5.1.5 Substrate and Electrodes 90 5.2 Device Fabrication 92 5.2.1 Vacuum Deposition 92 5.2.2 Photolithographic Structuring 92 5.3 Measurements 94 5.3.1 OLED Characterisation 94 5.3.2 Optical and Morphological Inspection 95 5.3.3 Calcium Conductance Test 95 5.3.4 Time-of-flight Spectroscopy 96 6 Orthogonal Patterning of Organic Semiconductor Films and Devices 97 6.1 Patterned Organic Films 97 6.2 Patterned Alq3 Based OLEDs 100 6.2.1 Direct Emitter Patterning 100 6.2.2 Cathode as Protection Layer 102 6.2.3 Impact of O2 Plasma Treatment 104 6.3 Summary 107 7 Photolithographic Structuring of State-of-the-Art p-i-n OLEDs for Full-Colour RGB Displays 109 7.1 Studied OLED Structures 109 7.2 HFE Compatibility Study 110 7.2.1 HFE Immersion Study 110 7.2.2 LDI-TOF-MS Analysis 112 7.3 Large area OLEDs 114 7.4 Microscale Devices 118 7.5 Bilayer Processing on p-i-n OLEDs 122 7.6 Summary 126 8 White Light from Photo-structured OLED Arrays 129 8.1 Fabrication of Micro-OLED Array 129 8.1.1 Structuring Procedure 130 8.1.2 Optical Device Optimisation 130 8.1.3 Choice of Hole Blocking and Electron Transport Layers 134 8.2 Performance of Microstructured Devices 143 8.2.1 Colour Temperature Tuning 143 8.2.2 Compatibility with Photo-patterning 145 8.2.3 Colour Stability 150 8.3 Summary 154 9 Efficiency Roll-off and Emission Colour of Microstructured OLEDs 155 9.1 Photolithographic Control of the Subunit Dimension 155 9.2 Control of the Emission Colour 156 9.3 Suppression of Efficiency Roll-off in Microscale Devices 157 9.4 Thermal Management in OLEDs 159 9.5 Modelling Impact of Joule Heat on Roll-off Characteristics 162 9.6 Summary 164 10 Conclusions and Outlook 165 10.1 Conclusions 165 10.2 Outlook 167 List of Abbreviations 171 List of Figures 173 List of Tables 177 Acknowledgements 179 Bibliography 181 / Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den neusten Errungenschaften von organischen Licht-emittierenden Dioden (OLEDs) für großflächige Beleuchtungs- und Displayanwendungen. Die OLED-Technologie hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten, begünstigt von neuartigen Material- und Bauteilkonzepten, weit entwickelt. Im aktuellen Stand der Technik erreichen OLEDs sowohl interne Effizienzen von 100% als auch Lebensdauern die für die kommerzielle Nutzung in Displays ausreichend sind. Nichtsdestotrotz sind weitere Verbesserungen für die Stabilität blauer Emitter und die Leistungsfähigkeit bei hohen Leuchtstärken erforderlich, damit die OLED Technologie ihren Platz auf dem Markt behaupten kann. Mit steigender Stromstärke, die durch ein solches Bauteil fließt, sinkt die Effizienz rapide (der sogenannte Effizienz-Roll-Off), was die Nutzung von OLEDs verhindert, wann immer hohe Leuchtstärken erforderlich sind. Zusätzlich verändern weiße OLEDs ihre Farbkomposition durch die unterschiedliche Alterung der unterschiedlichen Emittermoleküle oder veränderte Einsatzbedingungen. Obwohl die laterale Strukturierung nebeneinander aufgebrachter, monochromer OLEDs diese Probleme umgehen könnte, ist diese Herangehensweise durch die aktuelle Schattenmasken-Technologie limitiert, welche zur Strukturierung vakuumprozessierter Dünnschichten eingesetzt wird, und somit unpraktikabel für die Massenproduktion. Um diese Problemstellungen zu umgehen, wird hier die photolithographische Strukturierung von OLEDs angewendet. Mithilfe der orthogonalen Lithographie können hocheffiziente Bauteile damit erfolgreich auf Größenordnungen von 10 Mikrometer strukturiert werden. Dies zeigt, dass die orthogonale Prozessierung eine vielversprechende Alternative für die Schattenmasken-Technologie darstellt und für die Herstellung von RGB-Displays und Beleuchtungspanelen geeignet ist. Photostrukturierte Bauteile zeigen dabei eine nahezu identische Leistungsfähigkeit zu solchen, die großffächig mittels Schattenmasken hergestellt wurden. Diese hohe Leistungsfähigkeit kann hierbei durch eine sorgfältige Auswahl der einzelnen funktionellen Schichten erreicht werden, welche auf Untersuchung von morphologischer Stabilität und Löslichkeit dieser Schichten basiert. Mikrostrukturierte OLEDs in verschiedenen Konfigurationen werden mit ihren großflächigen Gegenstücken verglichen, um beobachtete Abweichungen im Ladungstransport, der Wärmeverteilung, sowie der Exzitonenrekombination zu erklären. Die Rolle der Joule'schen Wärme, die zur Auslöschung der emittierenden Exzitonenzustände führt, wird hier diskutiert. Die thermische Dissipation kann dabei verbessert werden, indem die aktive Fläche der OLED auf 20 Mikrometer herunterstrukturiert wird. Folglich kann der Effizienz-Roll-Off bei hohen Leuchtstärken in lateral strukturierten weißen elektrolumineszenten Bauteilen unterdrückt werden.:List of Publications 1 1 Introduction 5 2 Organic Semiconductors 9 2.1 Molecular Bonding 9 2.1.1 Intramolecular Interactions 10 2.1.2 Intermolecular Interactions 17 2.2 Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors 23 2.2.1 Excited State Dynamics 26 2.3 Energy Transfer in Organic Solids 27 2.3.1 Förster Energy Transfer 29 2.3.2 Dexter Energy Transfer 30 2.4 Charge Transport Phenomena 31 2.4.1 Polarization and Energetic Disorder 31 2.4.2 Charge Transport Models 33 3 Electromagnetic Field Propagation in Layered Media 35 3.1 Maxwell's Equations 35 3.1.1 Wave Character of Electromagnetic Field 37 3.1.2 Energy of Electromagnetic Field 38 3.1.3 Boundary Conditions of Electromagnetic Fields 39 3.2 Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves 40 3.2.1 Total Internal Reflection 43 3.3 Guided Optical Waves 44 3.3.1 Modes of Planar Waveguide 45 3.3.2 Multilayer Waveguides 49 3.3.3 Mode Coupling 53 3.4 EM Field in Presence of Charges 55 3.4.1 Volume Plasmons 58 3.4.2 Surface Plasmon Polaritons 58 3.4.3 Localized Plasmons 62 4 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 65 4.1 Principle of Operation 65 4.1.1 Electroluminescence Efficiency 66 4.1.2 Charge Injection and Transport 66 4.1.3 Radiative Efficiency 68 4.1.4 Excited State Formation 69 4.1.5 Organic Emitters 71 4.1.6 Light Extraction 73 4.1.7 Efficiency Loss Mechanisms 74 4.2 Applications of OLEDs 76 4.2.1 Information Displays 76 4.2.2 Solid-State Lighting 77 4.2.3 OLED Based Sensors 77 4.3 OLED Structuring 79 4.3.1 Shadow Mask Patterning 79 4.3.2 Serial Printing 80 4.3.3 Unconventional Patterning Techniques 80 4.3.4 Photolithographic Patterning of OLEDs 81 4.3.5 Orthogonal Processing of Organic Semiconductors 83 5 Materials and Methods 87 5.1 Organic Functional Materials . 87 5.1.1 Hole Injection/Transport Layers 87 5.1.2 Electron Blocking Materials 88 5.1.3 Hole Blockers and Electron Transport Materials 88 5.1.4 Emitter Systems 90 5.1.5 Substrate and Electrodes 90 5.2 Device Fabrication 92 5.2.1 Vacuum Deposition 92 5.2.2 Photolithographic Structuring 92 5.3 Measurements 94 5.3.1 OLED Characterisation 94 5.3.2 Optical and Morphological Inspection 95 5.3.3 Calcium Conductance Test 95 5.3.4 Time-of-flight Spectroscopy 96 6 Orthogonal Patterning of Organic Semiconductor Films and Devices 97 6.1 Patterned Organic Films 97 6.2 Patterned Alq3 Based OLEDs 100 6.2.1 Direct Emitter Patterning 100 6.2.2 Cathode as Protection Layer 102 6.2.3 Impact of O2 Plasma Treatment 104 6.3 Summary 107 7 Photolithographic Structuring of State-of-the-Art p-i-n OLEDs for Full-Colour RGB Displays 109 7.1 Studied OLED Structures 109 7.2 HFE Compatibility Study 110 7.2.1 HFE Immersion Study 110 7.2.2 LDI-TOF-MS Analysis 112 7.3 Large area OLEDs 114 7.4 Microscale Devices 118 7.5 Bilayer Processing on p-i-n OLEDs 122 7.6 Summary 126 8 White Light from Photo-structured OLED Arrays 129 8.1 Fabrication of Micro-OLED Array 129 8.1.1 Structuring Procedure 130 8.1.2 Optical Device Optimisation 130 8.1.3 Choice of Hole Blocking and Electron Transport Layers 134 8.2 Performance of Microstructured Devices 143 8.2.1 Colour Temperature Tuning 143 8.2.2 Compatibility with Photo-patterning 145 8.2.3 Colour Stability 150 8.3 Summary 154 9 Efficiency Roll-off and Emission Colour of Microstructured OLEDs 155 9.1 Photolithographic Control of the Subunit Dimension 155 9.2 Control of the Emission Colour 156 9.3 Suppression of Efficiency Roll-off in Microscale Devices 157 9.4 Thermal Management in OLEDs 159 9.5 Modelling Impact of Joule Heat on Roll-off Characteristics 162 9.6 Summary 164 10 Conclusions and Outlook 165 10.1 Conclusions 165 10.2 Outlook 167 List of Abbreviations 171 List of Figures 173 List of Tables 177 Acknowledgements 179 Bibliography 181