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Metasurface-driven OLED beyond 10,000 PPI

Journal
Science
Date
2020.10.23
Abstract
Metasurface is an artificial nanostructured, planar type metamaterial that be able to manipulate light through tailoring the localized coupling between electromagnetic wave and nano-scale antennas. Here, we propose a new OLED architecture (MOLED) that combines a phase-controllable, reflective metasurface to the micro-cavity OLEDs in order to overcome technical limits of existing OLEDs (pixel scaling limit or low power efficiency). In the metasurface embedded Fabry-Perot cavity, the resonance wavelength is mainly determined by adjusting the reflection phase of metasurface, not by a cavity length. It allows MOLED to implement ultra-high density RGB pixels (> 10,000 PPI) without using FMMs (fine-metal-mask) or color filters. It also demonstrates twice the luminance efficiency and superior color purity (bandwidth <35nm), compared to the color-filtered white-OLED method.
Reference
Science 370, 459-463 (2020)
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abc8530