Issue 37, 2015

High brightness deep blue/violet fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs)

Abstract

Two new deep blue/violet emitting alternating co-polymers, comprising readily-available carbazole (C) and fluorene (F) monomer units, have been synthesised and shown to produce extremely bright solution-processed polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) with the structure ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/TPBi/LiF/Al. The para-conjugated polymer, CF1, gave PLED devices with external quantum efficiency (EQE) values of ηext,max 1.4%, Lmax of 565 cd m−2 with CIEx,y (0.16, 0.07). The EQE was raised to ηext,max 2.1%, after the addition of a TAPC hole injection layer. For the isomeric meta-conjugated polymer, CF2, values of ηext,max 0.35%, Lmax of 16 cd m−2 with CIEx,y (0.18, 0.12) were obtained. The λELmax was 409 nm for both the CF1 and CF2 devices. The CF1 devices also possess low turn-on and low operating voltages for devices of such high brightness. Moreover, the CF1 emission is very stable from 10 cd m−2 up to peak brightness, with only a negligible shift in CIE coordinates. The combination of a simple co-polymer structure synthesised using readily-available monomer units, and high brightness and good colour stability from a simple device architecture, makes CF1 suitable for a wide range of applications requiring deep blue/violet emission.

Graphical abstract: High brightness deep blue/violet fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs)

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Jul 2015
Accepted
25 Aug 2015
First published
02 Sep 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 9664-9669

High brightness deep blue/violet fluorescent polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs)

J. H. Cook, J. Santos, H. A. Al-Attar, M. R. Bryce and A. P. Monkman, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 9664 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02162F

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