Organic light emitting devices performance improvement by inserting thin parylene layer

An organic light emitting device (OLED) structure with a thin parylene layer deposited by low-temperature chemical vapour deposition (CVD) at the anode-organic interface was fabricated. Such a structure gives off higher efficiency, a smaller number and smaller size dark non-emissive areas, slower growth rate of the dark areas and a longer device lifetime compared to one without the parylene layer. The parylene modified indium tin oxide (ITO) surface shows an increased work-function and a reduced surface roughness compared to that of the bare ITO surface. The interface optimisation contributes to the device performance improvement. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.