TY - JOUR
T1 - Offsetting the problem of charge trapping in white polymer light-emitting diodes using a fluorenone-based luminogen
AU - Ananthakrishnan, Soundaram Jeevarathinam
AU - Varathan, Elumalai
AU - Somanathan, Narayanasastri
AU - Subramanian, Venkatesan
AU - Mandal, Asit Baran
AU - Sudha, Janardanan D.
AU - Ramakrishnan, Rajaraman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014.
PY - 2014/11/14
Y1 - 2014/11/14
N2 - In this study, we propose a strategy to offset charge trapping and to enhance the confinement of excitons in the emissive layer of white electroluminescent copolymer using a luminogen with aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE). The fluorenone-based luminogen, 2,7-bis(9H- fluoren-9-one-2yl)-9,9-dihexylfluorene (FF) that exhibited yellow emission with AIEE property is copolymerized with 9,9-dihexylfluorene in different compositions to tune the emission color. White-light emission is demonstrated in a copolymer FF-0.25, which contained 0.25% of FF in the polymer backbone. Interestingly, the copolymers exhibited enhanced emission upon aggregation in thin film, even in low FF composition. OLEDs fabricated from the copolymer FF-0.25 elicited a white electroluminescence with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of 0.30, 0.31 with a power efficiency of 4.12 lm W-1. FF-0.25 showed very low charge trapping compared to other white emitting single polymer OLEDs reported to date. The reduced charge carrier trapping is attributed to the positioning of energy levels in the copolymer that resulted in almost equal electron- and hole-injection barriers. A theoretical investigation on the copolymers of FF revealed the presence of an ambipolar property and low exciton binding energy implicit of efficient formation and confinement of excitons within the emissive layer. The system represents the first ambipolar white electroluminescent polymer designed by using an AIEE luminogen.
AB - In this study, we propose a strategy to offset charge trapping and to enhance the confinement of excitons in the emissive layer of white electroluminescent copolymer using a luminogen with aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE). The fluorenone-based luminogen, 2,7-bis(9H- fluoren-9-one-2yl)-9,9-dihexylfluorene (FF) that exhibited yellow emission with AIEE property is copolymerized with 9,9-dihexylfluorene in different compositions to tune the emission color. White-light emission is demonstrated in a copolymer FF-0.25, which contained 0.25% of FF in the polymer backbone. Interestingly, the copolymers exhibited enhanced emission upon aggregation in thin film, even in low FF composition. OLEDs fabricated from the copolymer FF-0.25 elicited a white electroluminescence with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of 0.30, 0.31 with a power efficiency of 4.12 lm W-1. FF-0.25 showed very low charge trapping compared to other white emitting single polymer OLEDs reported to date. The reduced charge carrier trapping is attributed to the positioning of energy levels in the copolymer that resulted in almost equal electron- and hole-injection barriers. A theoretical investigation on the copolymers of FF revealed the presence of an ambipolar property and low exciton binding energy implicit of efficient formation and confinement of excitons within the emissive layer. The system represents the first ambipolar white electroluminescent polymer designed by using an AIEE luminogen.
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U2 - 10.1039/c4tc01722f
DO - 10.1039/c4tc01722f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908075476
SN - 2050-7534
VL - 2
SP - 9035
EP - 9044
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
IS - 42
ER -