Bioinspired ultrathin photonic color convertors for highly efficient micro-light-emitting diodes

Abstract

Pixelated color convertor plays an immensely important role in nextgeneration display technologies. However, the inherent randomness of light propagation within the convertor presents a formidable challenge to reconcile the huge contradiction between excitation and outcoupling. Here, we demonstrate a bioinspired photonic waveguide pixelated color convertor (BPW-PCC) to realize directional excitation and outcoupling, which is inspired by an insect visual system. The lens array of BPW-PCC enables a focusing photonic waveguide that guides the excitation light and converges it on colloidal quantum dots; the directional channel provides a splitting photonic waveguide to enhance the outcoupling of photoluminescence light. Consequently, the excitation and outcoupling efficiency can be simultaneously improved at this judiciously designed pixelated color convertor with a thickness of 50 µm. By this strategy, ultrathin BPW-PCCs with 4.4-fold enhanced photoluminescence intensity have been demonstrated in micro-light-emitting diode devices and achieved a record-high luminous efficacy of 1600 lm W^-1 mm^-1, opening a new avenue for efficient miniaturized displays.

Keywords

bioinspired design / micro-light-emitting diodes / photonic waveguide / pixelated color convertors

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