Efficient electron injection layer based on thermo-cleavable materials for inverted bottom-emission polymer light emitting diodes

Tengling Ye, Minrong Zhu, Jiangshan Chen, Qiang Fu, Fangchao Zhao, Changsheng Shi, Yue Hu, Dongge Ma, Chuluo Yang
2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry  
The electron injection material PF-EP was found to be thermo-cleavable. Its solubility in chlorobenzene can be adjusted by thermal treatment at different temperatures. By analyzing the results of TGA, FT-IR, and 13 C solid-state NMR, we interpret that the solubility transition is caused by partial acidification, crosslinking through a hydrogen-bonded network and coordination of O, P and Li. Based on this thermo-cleavable approach, efficient fully solution-processed IBPLEDs were successfully
more » ... icated. The maximum current efficiency of the device with 2.5% Li 2 CO 3 doped PF-EP as the EIL reaches nearly 1.7 times of that of a conventional device. We attribute the high performance to the good electron injection and hole blocking abilities of PF-EP and Li 2 CO 3 .
doi:10.1039/c2jm16061g fatcat:qm7uyw4elfdipi3zjrjejx6kly