American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 25(100), p. 253301
DOI: 10.1063/1.4729820
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We report on the nature of the resonant modes in organic planar microcavities featuring semi-transparent metallic layers. We theoretically demonstrate that symmetric microcavities support a total of four modes originating from the coupling of surface plasmon polaritons. For red top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes with one semi-transparent metallic electrode, we identify three coupled plasmonic modes and calculate a light outcoupling efficiency close to 34% when assuming emitters with isotropic transition dipole moment. This value is estimated to increase to 50% in the case the dipole moment is purely horizontal.