白光有机电致发光器件中Rubrene超薄层的发光性能

以黄光荧光染料5,6,11,12-Tetraphenylnaphthacene(Rubrene)作为超薄层, 制备了白光有机电致发光器件, 并采用改变荧光超薄层厚度的方法, 通过表征器件的电致发光光谱, 分析了超薄层中染料浓度对器件性能的影响. 研究结果表明, 在荧光染料Rubrene的厚度为0.3 nm时, 器件可以同时实现黄光和蓝光的等强度发射, 从而得到性能优良的白光器件, 最高亮度达到3700 cd/m², 颜色坐标为(0.32, 0.33). 器件中蓝光来自N,N′-Bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N′- biphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diamine(NPB)的电致发光, 而器件优良的光电性能是由于Rubrene分子直接载流子陷阱(DCT)效应和NPB分子向Rubrene分子传递能量的协同作用所致.     

绿色单峰发光聚(9,9-二烯丙基芴)的合成及其发光机制

为了得到绿色单峰发光的聚合物材料, 我们设计并合成了9位取代的二烯丙基芴单体, 在NiCl₂的催化下, 合成了可溶的聚芴衍生物, 聚(9,9-二烯丙基芴)(PAF). 较短的烯丙基链既可以增加聚芴的溶解度, 双键的存在又有利于聚芴发生分子间聚集而得到绿光发射的有机电致发光器件(OLED). PAF在溶液和薄膜状态下的荧光峰分别位于403和456 nm的蓝光区域, 而其器件ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PAF/LiF/Al(其中, ITO为氧化铟锡, PEDOT为聚(3,4-乙撑二氧噻吩), PSS为聚苯乙烯磺酸盐)的电致发光峰却红移至绿光区域(532 nm), 得到绿色单峰发光. 紫外吸收光谱、荧光发射光谱、红外光谱以及原子力显微镜(AFM)图像的结果证明, 造成PAF电致发绿光的机制为聚合物分子间聚集.     

含噻吩单元的硅芴共聚物的合成及其蓝色电致发光性能

将少量(摩尔分数为1%—3％)含噻吩的窄带隙单体和宽带隙硅芴单体进行共聚, 合成了聚{9,9-二己基-3,6-硅芴-co-[2,5-二(2-甲基苯撑-4-基)-噻吩]}和聚{9,9-二己基-3,6-硅芴-co-[2,5-二(2-苯撑-4-基)-噻吩]}两类硅芴共聚物, 通过紫外-可见吸收光谱、光致发光光谱, 并制作聚合物发光二极管器件测试电致发光光谱等手段, 系统表征了两类硅芴共聚物材料的性能. 实验结果表明, 噻吩的加入形成了新的蓝色发光中心, 并且实现了从硅芴链段到含噻吩发光中心的有效能量转移. 通过增加发光中心结构的空间位阻来减小其共轭程度, 可以使聚合物的PL和EL光谱发生较大蓝移. 最终得到了效率为0.46%和色坐标(CIE)为(0.19, 0.16)的蓝光LED器件.     

聚芴主链含D-A型萘并噻二唑和苯并硒二唑衍生物的红光高分子发光材料

设计合成了新型的含萘并噻二唑（NT）或苯并硒二唑（BS）电子受体单元的D-A型红光掺杂剂,将它们引入到聚芴(PFO)的主链,调节掺杂剂含量,合成了一系列具有“掺杂剂/主体”特性的红光高分子材料含萘并噻二唑衍生物的聚芴(PFR-xNT)和含苯并硒二唑衍生物的取芴(PFR-xBS)。 这些红光高分子的吸收光谱主要表现为聚芴主体的吸收,荧光光谱既有主体聚芴的蓝光峰,也有掺杂剂的红光峰,并且红光峰的相对强度随着掺杂剂含量的增加而增强。 与光致发光光谱不同,这些高分子的电致发光光谱主要表现为掺杂剂的红光发射,并在掺杂的摩尔分数达到1%时实现了主体聚芴向红光掺杂剂的完全能量转移。 其中PFR-10NT和PFR-10BS的单层器件(ITO/PEDOT:PSS/Polymer/Ca/Al)(PEDOT:聚3,4-乙烯二氧噻吩;PSS:聚苯乙烯磺酸)分别实现了电流效率1.61 cd/A,最大发射波长632 nm,CIE色坐标（0.63,0.35）以及电流效率1.10 cd/A,最大发射波长620 nm,CIE色坐标（0.63,0.36）的高效红光发射。     

芴-苯并噻二唑-苯胺类共聚物的合成与发光性能

用Suzuki缩聚反应分别将窄带隙单元-苯并噻二唑-二苯胺(DPABT)和苯并噻二唑-三苯胺(TPABT)引入聚芴主链,合成了共聚物PF-DPABT和PF-TPABT,并比较了共聚物的发光性能.随着窄带隙单元含量的增加,其特征发射逐渐增强,说明发生了从聚合物主体单元到窄带隙单元有效的能量转移.两种共聚物在低窄带隙单元含量(1mol%)下的电致发光光谱仅出现窄带隙单元的特征发射,PF-DPABT共聚物为650～680nm之间的饱和红光,而PF-TPABT共聚物为590～610nm之间的橙红光,聚芴主体单元的发射被完全淬灭,说明与光致发光过程相比,电致发光过程中的能量转移更完全.基于共聚物PF-DPABT-1及PF-TPABT-5器件的最大外量子效率分别为1.3%和2.0%,器件结构为ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/Ba/Al,是一类有希望的红光材料.     

新型蓝光材料: 氟代三联(9,9-二苯基)芴的合成及其光电性能研究

使用HF/吡啶法在芴环的4位引入了氟原子, 使用五氟氯苯格氏试剂在芴环的9位引入了全氟苯, 合成了五个氟取代三联(9,9-二苯基)芴化合物. 测量了该系列化合物的电化学、光学和电致发光性能, 氟原子的引入提高了化合物的电子传输能力. 在溶液和薄膜状态下, 该类化合物都呈现出稳定的蓝光发射(色坐标x＝0.156, y＝0.078). 由化合物6f制备的简单器件的启亮电压为6 V, 最大亮度为452 cd/m2.     

单分散齐聚芴电致发光材料的合成及器件化

用Sonogash ira法合成了一系列含三键的齐聚芴,所有产物经核磁共振谱、质谱及元素分析表征确认.此类物质在溶液中及薄膜状态均发射出蓝紫或深蓝色荧光,荧光发射峰随聚合度增大依次红移.以这些物质为发光材料制作了相应的有机电致发光二极管(OLED),对器件的测试结果表明,所合成的齐聚芴具有优良的蓝色电致发光特性,其中OF3R4的最大发光亮度达到5 795 cd/m²,而OF3R6的最大外量子效率达到1.0%,其最大发光亮度为2 690 cd/m².     

侧链接枝低聚对亚苯基亚乙烯基聚芴衍生物的合成及其电致发光性能

采用Wittig-Horner反应,将少量端基为磷脂的黄光发射客体低聚对亚苯基亚乙烯基链段(MOPV)接枝到含有醛基单体的蓝光发射主体材料聚芴的侧链上,合成了一种新型的接枝聚芴衍生物PF-g-MOPV.这种接枝聚合物具有很好的热稳定性,可溶于常用的有机溶剂.以接枝共聚物PF-g-MOPV为发光层的单层器件发射出黄绿光,色坐标为(0.30,0.57),最大发光亮度达到1550cm/m2,这说明蓝光聚芴主链向侧链MOPV进行了有效地能量转移.     

端基为橙光基团的聚芴合成和发光性质

含溴橙光化合物与双(三环己基膦)钯(0)进行氧化加成反应,合成了相应的芳基钯(Ⅱ)配合物.在加热条件下,该配合物可以引发AB型芴单体聚合,得到端基为橙光芳基基团的聚芴共轭聚合物.含溴橙光化合物与不同配体钯(0)配合物组成催化体系,原位引发聚合,同样可以制备上述端基结构明确的共轭聚合物.其中,以三(邻甲基苯基)膦或卡宾化合物为辅助配体时,室温下即可引发AB型芴单体进行催化剂转移聚合.卡宾化合物为辅助配体时,可以获得Mn为7.48×10~4的高分子量聚芴.MALDI-TOF分析证实,聚合物的一个端基是来自催化剂钯配合物中的橙光芳基基团,另一端基为Br/H原子.聚合物光致发光(PL)光谱主要表现为聚芴单元的蓝色荧光发射.电致发光(EL)光谱表明,聚合物在低分子量时表现为橙红光发射,而在高分子量时,能够得到白光发射.在数均分子量Mn为7.48×10~4时,聚合物可实现纯白光发射,国际色坐标CIE为(0.31,0.32).     

基于蓝黄磷光二元互补色的高效聚合物白光器件

研究了基于互补色的高效聚合物白光器件,双色材料包括蓝绿光材料双(4,6-二氟苯基吡啶-N,C2)吡啶甲酰合铱(Firpic)和黄光材料三[3-(2,6-二甲基苯氧基)-6-(2-噻吩基)-哒嗪]铱(Fs-1),器件结构为ITO/PEDOT(40 nm)/PVK:OXD-7:Firpic:Fs-1(80 nm)/Ba(4 nm)/Al(120 nm).当发光层材料PVK∶OXD-7∶Firpic∶Fs-1质量比为63∶27∶10∶0.25时,用溶液加工方法得到高效白光器件,此时CIE色坐标为(0.30,0.39),最大电流效率为10.8 cd.A-1,亮度可达到4200 cd.m-2.在此基础上,引入水溶性电子注入材料聚[9,9-二(3′-N,N-二甲基胺基丙基-2,7-芴-2,7-交-(9,9-二辛基芴)](PFN)修饰阴极界面,使载流子注入和传输更平衡,当阴极为PFN(20 nm)/Al(120 nm)时,电流效率获得显著改善,达到13.1 cd.A-1,此时电流密度为4.9 mA.cm-2,亮度可达到6096 cd.m-2,白光器件的色坐标为(0.33,0.39),同时发光光谱稳定.另外通过电致发光(EL)、光致发光(PL)光谱及能级结构图分析了载流子俘获和能量转移在发光中的作用.     

White electroluminescent single‐polymer achieved by incorporating three polyfluorene blue arms into a star‐shaped orange core

A series of star‐like dopant/host single‐polymer systems with a D‐A type star‐shaped orange core and three blue polyfluorene arms were designed and synthesized. Through tuning the doping concentration of the orange core and thermal annealing treatment of white polymer light‐emitting diodes based on them, highly efficient white electroluminescence has been achieved. A typical single‐layer device (ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/Ca/Al) realized pure white emission with a luminous efficiency of 16.62 cd A^?1, an external quantum efficiency of 6.28% and CIE coordinates of (0.33, 0.36) for S‐WP‐002TPB3 containing 0.02 mol % orange core. The high efficiency of the devices could be mainly attributed to the suppressed concentration quenching of the dopant units, more efficient energy transfer from polymer host to orange dopant and thermal annealing‐induced α‐phase polyfluorene (PF) self‐dopant in amorphous PF host. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Pure blue electroluminescent poly(aryl ether)s with dopant–host systems

A series of novel arylene ether polymers (P5F‐BCzVFs) containing both pentafluorene (5F) and distyrylarylene derivative (BCzVF) units in the side chains for efficient pure blue light emission were prepared by a facile, metal‐free condensation polymerization. The emission spectra indicated that color tuning could be achieved through efficient Förster energy transfer from the deep‐blue 5F host to the pure‐blue BCzVF dopant. Single‐layer polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) based on P5F‐BCzVFs (ITO/(PEDOT:PSS)/polymer/Ca/Al) exhibited voltage‐independent and stable pure blue emission with a Commission International de L'Eclairage (CIE) coordinate of (0.15, 0.15), a maximum brightness of 3576 cd/m², and a maximum luminous efficiencies of 2.15 cd/A, respectively. As most polymers with dopant‐host systems, the luminous efficiencies of all P5F‐BCzVFs surpassed that of the host‐only polymer (P5F), due to the energy transfer and charge trapping from the host to the dopant. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011     

White electroluminescence from a single polyfluorene containing bis‐DCM units

A series of fluorene‐based copolymers composed of blue‐ and orange‐light‐emitting comonomers were synthesized through palladium‐catalyzed Suzuki coupling reactions. 9,9‐Dihexylfluorene and 2‐(2,6‐bis‐{2‐[1‐(9,9‐dihexyl‐9H‐fluoren‐2‐yl)‐1,2,3,4‐tetrahydroquinolin‐6‐yl]‐vinyl}‐pyran‐4‐ylidene)‐malononitrile (DCMF) were used as the blue‐ and orange‐light‐emitting chromophores, respectively. The resulting single polymers exhibited simultaneous blue (423/450 nm) and orange (580–600 nm) emissions from these two chromophores. By adjusting the fluorene and DCMF contents, white light emission could be obtained from a single polymer; a device with an ITO/PEDOT:PSS/polymer/Ca/Al configuration was found to exhibit pure white electroluminescence with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.33, 0.31), a maximum brightness of 1180 cd/m², and a current efficiency of 0.60 cd/A. Furthermore, the white light emission of this device was found to be very stable with respect to variation of the driving voltage. The CIE coordinates of the device were (0.32, 0.29), (0.32, 0.29), and (0.33, 0.31) for driving voltages of 7, 8, and 10 V, respectively. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 3380–3390, 2007     

White electroluminescence from a single polymer: A blue‐emitting polyfluorene incorporating orange‐emitting benzoselenadiazole segments on its main chain

We have developed efficient white‐light‐emitting polymers through the incorporation of low‐bandgap orange‐light‐emitting benzoselenadiazole ( BSeD ) moieties into the backbone of a blue‐light‐emitting bipolar polyfluorene (PF) copolymer, which contains hole‐transporting triphenylamine and electron‐transporting oxadiazole pendent groups. By carefully controlling the concentrations of the low‐energy‐emitting species in the resulting copolymers, partial energy transfer from the blue‐fluorescent PF backbone to the orange‐fluorescent segments led to a single polymer emitting white light and exhibiting two balanced blue and orange emissions simultaneously. Efficient polymer light‐emitting devices prepared using this copolymer exhibited luminance efficiencies as high as 4.1 cd/A with color coordinates (0.30, 0.36) located in the white‐light region. Moreover, the color coordinates remained almost unchanged over a range of operating potentials. A mechanistic study revealed that energy transfer from the PF backbone to the low‐bandgap segments, rather than charge trapping, was the main operating process involved in the electroluminescence process. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 2938–2946, 2007     

Synthesis and characterization of electrophosphorescent jacketed conjugated polymers

A monomer containing bent side chains with oxadiazole unit was synthesized. And it was copolymerized with polyfluorene at different ratios. The photophysical and electrochemical properties of the copolymers were characterized. The results show that the introduction of the oxidiazole‐containing side chains into the polymer reduces the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level. And the steric hindrance of the side groups can effectively suppress the aggregation of the polymer backbones. Electroluminescent devices were fabricated with a configuration of indium tin oxide (ITO)/poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT):PSS/Sample/Ca/Al. All of the devices emit blue light. The device of the copolymer PFOXD50 shows the best performance with the maximum luminance of 1033 cd/m² and the maximum current efficiency of 0.29 cd/A. Then a cyclometalated iridium complex monomer (ppy)₂Ir(BrPhPyBr) was copolymerized with PFOXD50 at different ratios. The devices with the same configuration emit orange light. The efficiency generally increases with the increasing Ir content. Among them, the device of the copolymer PFOXDIr7 shows the best performance with the maximum luminance of 846 cd/m² and the maximum current efficiency of 0.61 cd/A. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Synthesis and characterization of bipolar copolymers containing oxadiazole and carbazole pendant groups and their application to electroluminescent devices

A series of random copolymers POC10{Poly(2,5‐bis[(5‐decyloxy‐phenyl)‐1,3,4‐oxadiazole]styrene)}‐co‐Poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) (PVK) with different nvk content were synthesized through common radical polymerization and were incorporated into light emitting diodes as emitting layers. The structures and properties of the copolymers were characterized and evaluated by GPC, TGA, DSC, UV, PL, CV, and EL analyses. All the polymers enjoy high thermal stability. Cyclic voltammetry revealed that, with the incorporation of N‐vinylcarbazole to the copolymer, these copolymers had high‐lying HOMO energy values, which facilitated hole injection. PL peaks in the film show blue‐shift compared with those in solutions and fluorescent quantum efficiency decreased with the nvk content increasing, which supported the efficient energy transfer from nvk units to the oxadiazole units. Single‐layer LEDs with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT/PC10‐nvk/Mg:Ag/Ag were fabricated, which emit a blue light around 440 and 490 nm with a maximum brightness of 675.3 cd/m² and luminous efficiency of 0.108 cd/A. Moreover, we fabricated electrophosphorescent device from bipolar transport copolymer PC10‐nvk4 as host material and an orange‐light‐emitting iridium phosphor IrMDPP as guest. The maximum luminous efficiency of 0.548 cd/A was obtained. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 5452–5460, 2008     

High-efficiency red-light emission from polyfluorenes grafted with cyclometalated iridium complexes and charge transport moiety

We report a new route for the design of electroluminescent polymers by grafting high-efficiency phosphorescent organometallic complexes as dopants and charge transport moieties onto alky side chains of fully conjugated polymers for polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED) with single layer/single polymers. The polymer system studied involves polyfluorene (PF) as the base conjugated polymer, carbazole (Cz) as the charge transport moiety and a source for green emission by forming an electroplex with the PF main chain, and cyclometalated iridium (Ir) complexes as the phosphorescent dopant. Energy transfer from the green Ir complex or an electroplex formed between the fluorene main chain and side-chain carbazole moieties, in addition to that from the PF main chain, to the red Ir complex can significantly enhance the device performance, and a red light-emitting device with the high efficiency 2.8 cd/A at 7 V and 65 cd/m2, comparable to that of the same Ir complex-based OLED, and a broad-band light-emitting device containing blue, green, and red peaks (2.16 cd/A at 9 V) are obtained.     

Bipolar copolymers comprised mesogen‐jacketed polymer containing oxadiazole units and PVK as host materials for electroluminescent devices

Nonconjugated bipolar transport polymers have been developed as host materials for electroluminescent devices by incorporating both electron‐transporting and hole‐transporting functionalities into copolymers. The random copolymer PCt‐nvk3‐7 containing mesogen‐jacketed segment of P‐Ct have been synthesized and characterized. The effect of mesogen‐jacketed segment content of these bipolar copolymers on device performance has been investigated. The results of polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) show that the jacketed content of copolymers has a significant effect on device performance: lowering charge transport and facilitating the hole‐electron recombination leads to much higher current efficiency. Applying these high triplet random copolymers as host, the maximum current efficiency of 0.70 cd/A and the maximum brightness of 1872.8 cd/m² was achieved for PCt‐nvk3‐7 with an orange‐emitting complex dopant. The results suggest that the bipolar copolymers PCt‐nvks can be good host polymers for electrophosphorescent devices. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 7861–7867, 2008     

Single layer light‐emitting diodes from copolymers comprised of mesogen‐jacketed polymer containing oxadiazole units and PVK

A series of copolymers PCt‐co‐Poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) were synthesized through common radical polymerization, in which P‐Ct as a kind of mesogen‐jacketed liquid crystalline polymer was introduced, and the effects of copolymers composing variation on the optical properties of the polymers were studied. The structures and properties of the copolymers were characterized and evaluated by thermogravimetric (TGA), UV, photoluminescence (PL), cyclic voltammetry (CV), and electroluminescence (EL) analyses. All the polymers enjoy high thermal stability. PL peaks in the film show blue‐shift compared with in solutions and fluorescent quantum efficiency decreased with the N‐vinylcarbazole (nvk) content increasing, which supported the efficient energy transfer from nvk units to the oxadiazole units. CV revealed that, with the incorporation of nvk to the copolymer, these copolymers had high‐lying HOMO energy levels ranging from ?5.94 to ?6.09 eV. Single‐layer light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) with the configuration of ITO/PEDOT/PCt‐nvk/Mg:Ag/Ag were fabricated, which emit a blue light around 450 and 490 nm with a maximum luminance of 703 cd/m². The device performance varies with the content of nvk and device configuration, with device configuration ( b ) and PCt‐nvk8 giving the best value of external quantum efficiency of 0.27%. We show here that by proper design copolymer structure and modification of device configuration can exhibit strong blue EL in higher external quantum efficiency. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 1843–1851, 2008     

Effective shielding of triplet energy transfer to conjugated polymer by its dense side chains from phosphor dopant for highly efficient electrophosphorescence

To examine the quenching of a triplet exciton by low triplet energy (E(T)) polymer hosts with different chain configurations for high E(T) phosphor guests, the quenching rate constant measurements were carried out and analyzed by the standard Stern-Volmer equation. We found that an effective shielding of triplet energy transfer from a high E(T) phosphor guest to a low E(T) polymer host is possible upon introducing dense side chains to the polymer to block direct contact from the guest such that the possibility of Dexter energy transfer between them is reduced to a minimum. Together with energy level matching to allow charge trapping on the guest, high device efficiency can be achieved. The extent of shielding for the systems of phenylene-based conjugated structures from iridium complexes follows the sequence di-substituted (octoxyl chain) in the para position (dC8OPPP) is greater than monosubstituted (mC8OPPP) and the PPPs with longer side chains are much higher than a phenylene tetramer (P4) with two short methyl groups. Further, capping the dialkoxyl-susbstituents with a carbazole (Cz) moiety (CzPPP) provides enhanced extent of shielding. Excellent device efficiency of 30 cd/A (8.25%) for a green electrophosphorescent device can be achieved with CzPPP as a host, which is higher than that of dC8OPPP as host (15 cd/A). The efficiency is higher than those of high E(T) conjugated polymers, poly(3,6-carbazole) derivatives, as hosts (23 cd/A). This observation suggests a new route for molecular design of electroluminescent polymers as a host for a phosphorescent dopant.