Molecular self-assembly routes to electroluminescent multilayer structures

Weijin Li, Joshua E. Malinsky, Homer Chou, Wuping Ma, Lifeng Geng, Tobin J. Marks, Ghassan E. Jabbour, Sean E. Shaheen, Bernard Kippelen, Nasser Peyghambarian, Pulak Dutta, Andrew G. Richter, Neal R. Armstrong, Paul A. Lee, Jeffrey D. Anderson

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Abstract

Self-limiting siloxane chemisorptive self-assembly approaches have been employed to construct multilayer organic LED (OLED) structures. Extensive characterization of the deposition of a prototype triaryamine hole transport layer precursor on ITO using ellipsometry, X-ray reflectivity, AFM, XPS, and cyclic voltammetry reveal that smooth, contiguous, pinhole-free multilayer structures can be sequentially built up angstrom-level precision. Vapor deposition of a conventional emissive/electron transport layer and a metal electrode on the self-assembled HTL structure yields stable OLED structures with low turn-on voltages, high light output, and good external quantum efficiencies. Finally, self-assembly of an emissive layer on an ITO/HTL structure, followed by a LiF buffer layer and metal electrode, affords the first totally self-assembled two-layer OLED devices which emit continuous blue light.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1083-1084
Number of pages2
JournalAmerican Chemical Society, Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry
Volume39
Issue number2
StatePublished - Aug 1998
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1997 Boston Meeting - Boston, MA, USA
Duration: Aug 23 1998Aug 27 1998

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Polymers and Plastics

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