Issue 11, 2015

Fluorene co-polymers with high efficiency deep-blue electroluminescence

Abstract

Two new deep blue emitting co-polymers are synthesised and exploited in highly-efficient solution-processed polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). A key molecular design feature is selective functionalisation of 9,9-diphenylfluorene to disrupt backbone π-conjugation, thereby promoting luminescence from short emissive domains (λELmax 422 and 401 nm for P1 and P2 devices, respectively). PLEDs using P1 and P2 in the hybrid architecture ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/TPBi/LiF/Al show low turn-on voltages and remarkably high EQE values of ηext,max 3.3%, Lmax of 167 cd m−2 with CIExy coordinates (0.17, 0.10) for P1; and 3.9%, 274 cd m−2, CIExy (0.17, 0.07) for P2. These performances are currently among the best for PLEDs with CIEy ≤ 0.10.

Graphical abstract: Fluorene co-polymers with high efficiency deep-blue electroluminescence

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 ⴷⵓⵊ 2014
Accepted
25 ⵉⵏⵏ 2015
First published
04 ⴱⵕⴰ 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 2479-2483

Fluorene co-polymers with high efficiency deep-blue electroluminescence

J. Santos, J. H. Cook, H. A. Al-Attar, A. P. Monkman and M. R. Bryce, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 2479 DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02766C

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