It is demonstrated that barium and aluminum alloy synthesized by melting in a glass tube under low vac- uum is applicable for organic laser emitting diodes (LEDs) as a thin film cathode.The alloy film obtained by the thermal evaporation of pre-synthesized alloy is used in a single-boat organic LED device with the struc- ture: indium tin oxide (ITO)/4,4-bis[N-(1-naphthyl)-N-phenylamino]biphenyl(NPB)/tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum(Alq) /barium:aluminum alloy.The experimental results show that devices with this alloy film cathode exhibit better current densityovoltage-luminance characteristics than those with a conventional pure AI cathode, and more weight of barium in aluminum leads to better performance of the devices.Characteristics of cur- rent density versus voltage for the electron-only devices are fitted by the Richardson-Schottky emission model, indicating that the electron injection barrier has a decrease of about 0.3 eV by this alloy cathode.