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Electrochemical characterization of blue-emitting polyfluorene LEP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Ilaria Grizzi ,
Clare Foden ,
Simon Goddard  and
Carl Towns
Ilaria Grizzi
Affiliation:
Cambridge Display Technology Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0TX, UK
Clare Foden
Affiliation:
Cambridge Display Technology Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0TX, UK
Simon Goddard
Affiliation:
Cambridge Display Technology Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0TX, UK
Carl Towns
Affiliation:
Cambridge Display Technology Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0TX, UK
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Abstract

In an operating LED, electrons are injected into the polymer's LUMO level from the cathode and holes from the anode into the polymer's HOMO level. The value of the electron affinity (EA) is usually inferred (often incorrectly) from the experimental HOMO level energy and the value of the optical band gap. Using carefully controlled experimental conditions we can now directly access the EA position. Reduction events have been observed on poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (F8) and blue emitting polymers based on 9,9-dioctylfluorene. This event is consistent and reversible. As predicted by theory, the LUMO level is entirely delocalised over F8 blocks. An EA of approx. –2.3eV, equal to that of F8, is therefore a common feature of blue polymers containing sequences of 9,9-dioctylfluorene. Blue emitting 9,9-dioctylfluorene -triarylamine AB copolymers containing either 4-sec-butylphenyl diphenyl amine (TFB) or N,N'-bis(4-butylphenyl)-N,N'-diphenyl phenylenediamine (PFB) are characterized by an electron affinity of –2.1eV. This result shows that the LUMO wave function in these systems is localized on the Ph-F8-Ph units. In the case of PFB homopolymer the LUMO level is again localized, this time on the biphenyl unit at the junction of each 2 repeating units. The EA for this material is therefore lower than in the previous cases: -1.84eV, as a result of the increased localization of the LUMO wave function Electrochemical characterisation provides a direct probe for the dynamic of the charge injection in a polymer system, as the HOMO and LUMO are the states into which the holes and electrons are injected. Electrochemical measurement together with theoretical modelling gives a more complete understanding of molecular properties and behaviour. However, electrochemical measurements are not necessarily relevant to the optical energy gap, as the optical excitation does not necessarily involve molecular orbitals probed by electrochemical methods.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 771: Symposium L – Organic and Polymeric Materials and Devices , 2003 , L1.7
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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