Light-emitting electrochemical cells from a blend of p- and n-type luminescent conjugated polymers

1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (15) ◽  
pp. 1926-1928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Qibing Pei
Author(s):  
J. Fink

Conducting polymers comprises a new class of materials achieving electrical conductivities which rival those of the best metals. The parent compounds (conjugated polymers) are quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors. These polymers can be doped by electron acceptors or electron donors. The prototype of these materials is polyacetylene (PA). There are various other conjugated polymers such as polyparaphenylene, polyphenylenevinylene, polypoyrrole or polythiophene. The doped systems, i.e. the conducting polymers, have intersting potential technological applications such as replacement of conventional metals in electronic shielding and antistatic equipment, rechargable batteries, and flexible light emitting diodes.Although these systems have been investigated almost 20 years, the electronic structure of the doped metallic systems is not clear and even the reason for the gap in undoped semiconducting systems is under discussion.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Bolink ◽  
Rubén D. Costa ◽  
Enrique Orti ◽  
Michele Sessolo ◽  
Stefan Graber ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 084002
Author(s):  
Yuki Tanaka ◽  
Jiang Pu ◽  
Taishi Takenobu

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Z. Wang ◽  
D. D. Gebler ◽  
D. K. Fu ◽  
T. M. Swager ◽  
A. J. Epstein

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Dong Han ◽  
Jingwen Li ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Zewang He ◽  
Zhiwei Wu ◽  
...  

Four D-π-A conjugated polymers, namely P1–P4, which contain benzotriazole building blocks in their backbone as acceptor, are synthesized via palladium-catalyzed direct C-H cross-coupling polycondensation of 5,6-difluorobenzotriazole with different thiophene derivatives, including 3-octylthiophene, 2,2’-bithiophene, thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxine, and 4,4-dioctyl-4H-silolo-[3,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene as donor units, respectively. Taking the polymer P1 as an example, the chemical structure of the polymer is demonstrated by 1H and 19F NMR spectra. The optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties of these polymers are assessed by UV–vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), respectively. DFT simulations of all polymers are also performed to understand their physicochemical properties. Furthermore, P1 and P2, which have relatively higher molecular weights and better fluorescent quantum efficiency than those of P3 and P4, are utilized as lighting emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), affording promising green and red luminescence with 0.07% and 0.14% of maximum external quantum efficiency, respectively, based on a device with an architecture of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PTAA/the polymer emitting layer/TPBi/LiF/Al.


MRS Bulletin ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 46-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.R. Salaneck ◽  
J.L. Brédas

Since the discovery of high electrical conductivity in doped polyacetylene in 1977, π-conjugated polymers have emerged as viable semiconducting electronic materials for numerous applications. In the context of polymer electronic devices, one must understand the nature of the polymer surface's electronic structure and the interface with metals. For conjugated polymers, photoelectron spectroscopy—especially in connection with quantum-chemical modeling—provides a maximum amount of both chemical and electronic structural information in one (type of) measurement. Some details of the early stages of interface formation with metals on the surfaces of conjugated polymers and model molecular solids in connection with polymer-based light-emitting devices (LEDs) are outlined. Then a chosen set of issues is summarized in a band structure diagram for a polymer LED, based upon a “clean calcium electrode” on the clean surface of a thin film of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV). This diagram helps to point out the complexity of the systems involved in polymer LEDs. No such thing as “an ideal metal-on-polymer contact” exists. There is always some chemistry occurring at the interface.


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