Generation of Chiral Electroluminescence from Metasurface-Integrated OLEDs
Videsh Kumar a, Sergio Martínez Saiz b, Jose Mendoza Carreño a, Kassio P. S. Zanoni b, Henk J. Bolink b, Agustín Mihi a
a Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
b Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, ICMol, Universidad de Valencia, C/Catedrático J. Beltrán 2, Paterna 46980, Spain
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2026 Conference (MATSUSFall26)
B3 Chirality in Optoelectronics: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
Palma, Spain, 2026 October 26th - 30th
Organizers: Dmitry Baranov, Beatriz Martin Garcia and Agustín Mihi
Poster, Videsh Kumar, 531
Publication date: 22nd July 2026

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with circular polarization offer significant future advancements in photonic applications, ranging from more efficient displays, sensing, new light sources for bioimaging, or integration in quantum devices that operate at room temperature. OLED technology is of particular interest because of its lower power consumption. Developing cost-effective circularly polarized (CP) OLEDs with high dissymmetry (gEL) factors is recognised as a significant challenge. Here, we demonstrate the realisation of CD-OLEDs by combining standard manufacturing OLEDs technology crowned by a chiral metasurface produced by soft nanoimprint lithography. The chiral metasurface serves as a filter for circularly polarized light and promotes CP emission from the active layer. We employ a chiral metasurface with a triskelion shape with  500 nm lattice, arranged in hexagonal symmetry. The nanoimprinted CP-OLEDs show dissymmetry values of 0.09 gEL. illustrating that chiral metasurfaces can be integrated into OLEDs, making it a promising option for chiral photoelectric devices.

We acknowledge financial support from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Challenges program under project number 101162112 (RADIANT). This work has received funding from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) through grants, PID2022-141956NB-I00 (OUTLIGHT), and CEX2023-001263-S (Spanish Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence program). Videsh kumar is grateful to the auspices of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's Ph.D. program in Materials Science. We acknowledge the assistance of the ICMAB-CSIC Electron Microscopy Services.

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