Improved Efficiency of Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Near-Infrared Light Upconverter by Device Optimization

Abstract

An organic/inorganic hybrid up-conversion device was demonstrated in this work, which can convert near-infrared light (NIR) to visible green at high conversion efficiency. The upconverter was fabricated by integrating an In(0.12)Ga(0.88)As/GaAs multiquantum wells (MQWs) photodetector (PD) with an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The up-conversion efficiency of 4.0 W/W % was obtained at 20 V under NIR illumination of 1 mW/mm(2) at room temperature by optimizing the structure of the PD unit and adding MoO(3) doped perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) as interfacial layer of OLED. Meanwhile, the green light output induced by NIR achieved 6050 cd/m(2), which proves that the organic/inorganic hybrid upconverter an excellent candidate that can be applied in light converter field.