A charge carrier mobility of polymer films with the time-of-flight(TOF) technique using a fullerene layer was measured and the TOF photocurrent waveform can be remarkably improved.The 80-nm-thick fullerene layer is functioned as a charge-separation layer(CSL) which was placed between ITO electrode and the polymer layer of MEH-PPV(poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy) 1,4-phenylenevinylene]).In the CSL,the photo-generated holes and electrons can be efficiently separated,resulting in an enhanced current signal and great improvement of TOF waveform.The sample structure with fullerene layer exhibits a great advantage to measure the hole mobilities of polymers with low energy band gap.
A solution-processed zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film as an electron collection layer for polymer solar cells (PSCs) with an inverted device structure was investigated. Power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of PSCs made with a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) are 3.50% and 1.21% for PSCs with and without the ZnO thin film, respectively. Light intensity dependence of the photocurrent and the capacitance-voltage measurement demonstrate that the increased PCEs are due to the restriction of the strong bimolecular recombination in the interface when a thin ZnO layer is inserted between the polymer active layer and the ITO electrode. These results demonstrate that the ZnO thin film plays an important role in the performance of PSCs with an inverted device structure.
YANG TingBinQIN DongHuanLAN LinFengHUANG WenBoGONG XiongPENG JunBiaoCAO Yong
Phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes(PHOLED)s based on iridium complexes have been attracting much att...
Rong Guan,Lei Ying,Yunhua Xu,Jianhua Zou,Wei Yang~* (Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices,Key Laboratory of Specially Functional Materials of Ministry of Education,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640)
High-brightness and color-stable two-wavelength hybrid white organic light emitting diodes (HWOLEDs) with the configuration of indium tin oxide (ITO)/ N, N, N, N-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)-benzidine (MeO-TPD): tetrafluoro-tetracyanoqino dimethane (F4-TCNQ)/N,N-di(naphthalene-1-yl)-N,N-diphenyl-benzidine (NPB)/ 4,4-N,N-dicarbazolebiphenyl (CBP): iridium (III) diazine complexes (MPPZ) 2 Ir(acac)/NPB/2-methyl-9,10-di(2-naphthyl)anthracene (MADN): p-bis(p-N,N-di-phenyl-aminostyryl)benzene (DSA-ph)/bis(10-hydroxybenzo[h] quino-linato)beryllium complex (Bebq2)/LiF/Al have been fabricated and characterized. The optimal brightness of the device is 69932 cd/m2 at a voltage of 13 V, and the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) chromaticity coordinates are almost constant during a large voltage change of 6-12 V. Furthermore, a current efficiency of 15.3 cd/A at an illumination-relevant brightness of 1000 cd/m2 is obtained, which rolls off slightly to 13.0 cd/A at an ultra high brightness of 50000 cd/m2. We attribute this great performance to wisely selecting an appropriate spacer together with effectively utilizing the combinations of exciton-harvested orange-phosphorescence/blue-fluorescence in the device. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most exciting results in two-wavelength HWOLEDs up to now.
Several highly efficient iridium-complex polymer light-emitting devices (PLEDs) are fabricated,with a newly synthesized blue conjugated polymer,poly[(9,9-bis(4-(2-ethylhexyloxy)phenyl)-fluorene)-co-(3,7-dibenziothiene-S,S-dioxide15)] (PPF-3,7SO15),chosen as host.High luminous efficiencies of 7.4 cd·A 1 and 27.4 cd·A 1 are achieved in red and green PLEDs,respectively,by optimizing the doping concentrations of red phosphorescent dye iridium bis(1-phenylisoquinoline) (acetylacetonate) (Ir(piq)) and green phosphorescent dye iridium tris(2-(4-tolyl)pyridinato-N,C 2) (Ir(mppy) 3).Furthermore,highly efficient white PLEDs (WPLEDs) with the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.35,0.38) are successfully produced by carefully controlling the doping concentration of the irid-ium complex.The obtained WPLEDs show maximal efficiencies of 14.4 cd·A 1 and 10.1 lm·W 1,which are comparable to those of incandescent bulbs.Moreover,the electroluminescent spectrum of the white device with an initial luminance of about 1000 cd·m 2 is stable,subject to constant applied current stress,indicating that good device stability can be obtained in this system.
