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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Cavity-Compatible Light Extraction in Top-Emitting Microcavity OLEDs via a Gentle Internal Corrugation Layer and Resonance-Matched Narrowband Emission.

Young Rok Kim, Ajay Nimbalkar, Min Chul Suh

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Young Rok KimDepartment of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Dongdaemun-Gu, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0901-3097
Ajay NimbalkarDepartment of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Dongdaemun-Gu, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0305-5385
Min Chul SuhDepartment of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Dongdaemun-Gu, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-1693

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BK21 FOUR program of Graduate School, Kyung Hee University 20240380Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Korea) RS-2025-25452683Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Korea) RS-2026-25526873Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources (MOTIR, Korea) RS-2026-25529892National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2026-25542348
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Abstract

Top-emitting microcavity organic light-emitting diodes (TE-OLEDs) use a Fabry-Perot cavity to concentrate emission in the forward direction and narrow the electroluminescence spectrum, improving frontal efficiency and color purity. However, internal light extraction remains difficult because steep outcoupling textures can release confined optical modes while increasing local optical-thickness variation, degrading step coverage, and perturbing the cavity-defined angular and spectral response. Here, we introduce a gentle internal corrugation layer (GICL) as a cavity-compatible light-extraction structure for TE-OLEDs and combine it with a tCzphB-Fl-based phosphor-assisted thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)-sensitized fluorescence (pTSF) emissive system. GICL enhances the extraction of confined optical modes while reducing the risk of severe cavity perturbation associated with steep internal textures. The narrowband pTSF emissive system further reinforces the device-level gain because a larger spectral fraction remains aligned with the microcavity resonance band. Under the same optical clear resin (OCR) condition, GICL increases the current efficiency from 302.7 to 378.4 cd/A, the power efficiency from 199.3 to 396.7 lm/W, and the external quantum efficiency from 34.8% to 69.2%, while reducing the angular color shift at 60° from Δu'v' = 0.0197 to 0.0086. These results support GICL as a cavity-compatible light-extraction route for microcavity TE-OLEDs.

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internal outcoupling structureslight‐extraction strategiesmicrocavity OLEDsnarrowband emitterstop‐emitting OLEDsviewing‐angle stability

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PMID42804220
PMCPMC13618774

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