화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Macromolecular Research, Vol.20, No.5, 459-464, May, 2012
DOI10.1007/s13233-012-0115-1  Export Citation
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Crosslinkable Poly(propylenedioxythiophene) Derivative as a Buffer Layer for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Applications
Sung Kwang Ahn, Taewon Ban, Pachagounder Sakthivel, Sung-Ho Jin†, Yeong-Soon Gal1, and Jun Hee Lee2, †
  • Department of Chemistry Education, Interdisciplinary Program of Advanced Information and Display Materials, and Institute for Plastic Information and Energy Materials, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea
  • 1Polymer Chemistry Lab., Kyungil University, Gyeongbuk, 712-701, Korea
  • 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, 604-714, Korea
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A new crosslinkable polythiophene derivative, poly(hexynyl2-PDOT-co-heptyl2-PDOT), with propylenedioxythiophene moiety containing solubilizing and crosslinkable substitutents as a pendant group were synthesized by oxidative polymerization using FeCl3. The resulting copolymer was soluble in organic solvents and spun cast onto the indium tin oxide-coated glass substrate to create a uniform thin film. After thermal crosslinking and rinsing of the crosslinked thin film using chloroform, the π-π transition peak and the absorption edge appeared at almost the same wavelength as that of the untreated copolymer. We fabricated organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in ITO/buffer layer/poly[2-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-5-methoxy-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV)/LiF/Ca/Al configuration using either poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) or poly(hexynyl2- PDOT-co-heptyl2-PDOT) as buffer layers. Due to the intrinsic conductivity of poly(hexynyl2-PDOT-co-heptyl2-PDOT) vs. that of PEDOT:PSS caused decreased OLED performance. The turn-on voltage of the OLED using poly(hexynyl2-PDOT-co-heptyl2-PDOT) buffer layer was observed at 5 V. The maximum brightness and luminance efficiencies were 2,597 cd/m2 at 12 V and 0.3 cd/A, respectively.
Keywords:organic light-emitting diode (OLED);buffer layer;PEDOT:PDD;PPDOT;thermal crosslinking.
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