Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Optical Upconverter

We report a hybrid organic-inorganic optical upconverter that converts input 1.5-mum infrared light to output visible light. The device was made by direct tandem integration of an inorganic InGaAs/InP photodetector with an organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Incoming 1.5-mum light optical radiation is absorbed by the semiconductor p-i-n detector. The resultant photocurrent drives the OLED to emit visible light at ~520 nm in wavelength. The ratio of the photocurrent-induced versus dark-current-induced visible light emission was measured to be over 100 at a device bias of 14 V at room temperature. Devices with different configurations of the hole transport layer (HTL) were fabricated and tested. It was found that the devices with an HTL of C60/CuPc/NPB exhibited a lowest turn-on voltage (~3.8 V). The results show that the interfacial structure at the inorganic-organic interface plays a vital role in enabling the integration of the hybrid organic-inorganic devices.

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