On the electrical degradation and green band formation in alpha- and beta-phase poly(9,9-dioctyfluorene) polymer light-emitting diodes

In this work we report a detailed comparison of optical and electrical degradation between alpha- and beta-phase poly(9,9-dioctyfluorene) (PFO) based diodes. Analysis of the EL spectra along continuous operation time in alpha- and beta-PFO based diodes reveals that the unwanted green emission tradit...

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Autores: Arredondo, Belén, Romero, Beatriz, Gutiérrez, Araceli, Martínez, Armando, Alvarez, Angel Luis, Quintana, Xabier, Otón, José Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Repositorio:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
OAI Identifier:oai:burjcdigital.urjc.es:10115/12053
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10115/12053
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Polymer light-emitting diodes
Polyfluorene
beta-Phase
Degradation
3307 Tecnología Electrónica
3306.02 Aplicaciones Eléctricas
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Sumario:In this work we report a detailed comparison of optical and electrical degradation between alpha- and beta-phase poly(9,9-dioctyfluorene) (PFO) based diodes. Analysis of the EL spectra along continuous operation time in alpha- and beta-PFO based diodes reveals that the unwanted green emission traditionally associated to fluorenone is more likely to occur in a-phase PFO. The relative spectral areas arising from excitonic and vibronic transitions as well as fluorenone defects have been quantified by means of Gaussian deconvolution along the operation time. The relative spectral area associated to the formation of the fluorenone increases 13% for the beta-PFO diode and up to 21% for the alpha-PFO diode only after 35 min of continuous operation. Analysis of the I-V curve before and after electrical stressing has lead to hole mobilities in pristine diodes of 1.4 x 10(-4) cm(2)/Vs and 1.6 x 10(-5) cm(2)/Vs for beta-PFO and alpha-PFO respectively. Both beta-PFO and alpha-PFO degraded samples show a reduction in the hole mobility, as well as an increase in the width of the Gaussian density of states.