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  • Materials Science
  • Organic Electronics
  • Photonics

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  • Flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are promising for wearable electronics due to their mechanical flexibility.
  • Current flexible OLEDs require high-quality, bendable, and manufacturable transparent conductive electrodes to replace indium tin oxide (ITO).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a flexible transparent conductor for high-efficiency, large-area OLEDs.
  • To demonstrate ITO-free flexible OLEDs with superior performance for advanced applications.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a flexible transparent conductor on plastic featuring embedded silver networks.
  • Integration of an improved outcoupling structure to enhance light extraction and reduce plasmonic losses.

Main Results:

  • Achieved flexible, highly power-efficient large-area green and white OLEDs.
  • Demonstrated flexible white OLEDs with a power efficiency of 106 lm W⁻¹ at 1000 cd m⁻² and angular color stability.
  • Performance significantly surpasses existing flexible white OLEDs.

Conclusions:

  • The developed flexible transparent conductor enables high-performance, ITO-free OLEDs.
  • Represents a significant advancement towards realizing efficient, high-quality flexible displays and lighting for diverse applications.