Authors: Fei Li†, HongIei Ji‡₸, Huaishu Xu‡, ZeIong Bait, Ruikuo Liu§, Jing Li§, Haizheng Zhong†,*
† MllT Key Laboratory for Low-dimensional Quantum Structure and Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing lnstitute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
‡ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang, Ningbo,China
₸ TCL Electronics Holdings Limited., ShenZhen, China
§ Zhijing Nanotech Co., Ltd., Beijing, China
Contact Author Email: hZZhong@bit.edu.cn
Abstract
In this work, the green and red dual emissive perovskite quantum dot embedded composite films with photoluminescence quantum yield of about 85%, transmittance of about 90% and narrow band emissions were successfully fabricated and integrated with Mini- LEDs for LCD backlight applications.
Author Keywords
Quantum dot, perovskite, composite film, in situ fabrication, Mini-LED, backlight.
Table of Contents
Toggle1. Introduction
Because of the excellent color performance, quantum dots (QDs)have attracted a lot of attentions for display applications. The use of quantum dots based light emitting didoes (QLED)in LCD backlights have been successfully commercialized in 2014. After 5 years, the number of QLED-TV increased to 5 millions. The market penetration is only about 2 % TV, which is still relatively low. Most of the available OLED-TVs are based on the CdSe and InP QDs1-2. However, the CdSe faced with the toxicity of cadmium3, which have been for bidden by European Union,limited its wide range of applications. For InP quantum dot, there latively low quantum yield and broad full width at half maximum (FWHM)reduced the color rendering performance of television4. Additionally, the cost has been limited by the complicated chemical synthesis and also the sequent encapsulations.Very recently, perovskite quantum dots (PQDs)are emerging as low cost, low toxicity and high optical properties altematives for display backlights applications5-7. In particular, the in-situ fabrication of perovskite quantum dots films (PQDF)provides convenient route for the scale up fabrication8-9.According to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS),the Pb amount in PODF is much less than the maximum allow able Pb content (1000 ppm). In 2018, we demonstrated the first PQD based TV Demo by combining green emissive PQDF and red emissive KSiF6: Mn4+ phosphor with blue GalnN LED chip10. However this route is not compatible with the Mini LED backlight.
In this work, we demonstrated the combination of green and red dual emissive PODFs for Mini LED backlight applications. The photo luminescence quantum yield (PLQYs)of green and red films are 95% and 86%, respectively. They possess a FWHM of 21 nm for green emission and 3l nm for red emission,respectively. The peak position and FWHM were kept after combination. They were successfully integrated with Mini LED to achieve high color gamut and high brightness LCD backlights
2. Discussion
Here, we highlight the up-to-date PODF with low cost, high brightness and low heavy metal content. This technology originated invented by our group at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)and jointly developed by Zhijing NanotechCo., Ltd. and Hefei Lucky Co., Ltd.. The green emissive PQDF is now commercial available from Zhijing Nanotech Co., Ltd. For this demon, the green and red PODF were fabricated through our reported in situ fabrication process. The fabrication involves three stages. Firstly, the raw materials of perovskites and polymer were mixed in N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) to form the precursor solution, Secondly, the precursor solution was coating onto PET film to obtain a uniform precursor coating layer. Thirdly, with the evaporation of solvent under vacuum drying, the PQDF with strong PL emission were formed on the polymer substrate.
Figure la and b shows PL spectra of green and red emissive PODF, respectively. The PL emission peaks of these green and red films locate at 530 nm and 628 nm, with FWHM of 2l nm and31 nm for green and red PQDFs, respectively. Figure le presents the transparency properties of the green and red composite films.The transparency of these films approach to 92%.
To illustrate the potential use of these PODF films in LCD backlight, we prepared green and red emissive PQDF with width about 40 cm and length about 300 cm by adapting our reported in-situ fabrication methods. As shown in Figure 2a and b, these films are uniform with strong PL emission. The green and red films were assembled into a composite dual emissive film for Mini-LED application. Figure 2c shows a schematic diagram of the configuration of the integration. Figure 2 d shows the electroluminescence (EL)spectra of the backlight used Mini LED and PODF. The peak position and FWHM were kept after combination. The transparency was slightly reduced to 90%. The quantum yield of the POD based color convention film is about84%. The decrease of PLOYs can be attributed to the reabsorptionof green light by red film. Figure 2e shown CIE color coordinates corresponding to the dual emissive PODF combined with blue Mini-LED backlight and NTSC standard. The color coordinates area of the composite film and blue Mini LED chip is much larger than that of the color space of the NTSC(~118% ofNTSC 1931)standard with a matching rate of 100%. The excellent opticalproperties make them very suitable for LCD backlight display application. We then developed a 32 inch LCD demo, an enhanced performance can be visualized. As shown in figure 2fthe screen using dual emissive perovskite quantum dots composite film assembly backlight unit gives more details of object colors.The demo screen demonstrates a higher saturation and a more remarkable color rendition.
3. Conclusion
In summary, we here report the fabrication of dual emissive PODFs with excellent green and red color performance for Mini LED backlights. The green film shows PLQY of 95%, FWHM of
21 nm and transparency of 92%. Similarly, the red film possess the quantum yield of 85%, FWHM of 31 nm with transparency of 92%. These PODF films were assembled into a composite films with dual emissive films for LCD backlights applications.The integration of the dual emissive films with blue Mini LEDs give advanced backlights with a color space of ~130% of NTSC 1931 standard with a matching rate of 100%. The available dual emissive PQDFs have the advantage of low toxicity, excellent PL properties and low cost, showing a bright future of for LCD display application.
4. Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program(No.2017YFB0404600)and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61722502).
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