Emitting characteristics of poly(3-octylthiophene) electroluminescent devices

Poly(3-octylthiophene) 전계발광소자의 발광특성

  • 서부완 (전남대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 김주승 (전남대학교 전기공학과) ;
  • 구할본 (전남대학교 전기공학과)
  • Published : 2000.05.13

Abstract

Electroluminescent[EL] from conjugated polymers has recently received great attention because polymer light-emitting diodes[LEDs] clearly have potential for applications such as large-area displays. The operation of polymer LEDs is based on double injection of electrons and holes from the electrodes, followed by formation of excitons whose radiative decay results in light emission at wavelength characteristic to the material In this paper, we fabricated the single layer EL device using poly(3-octylthiophene)[P3OT] as emitting material. The orange-red light was clearly visible in a dark room Maximum peak wavelength of EL spectrum saw at 640nm in accordance with photon energy 1.9eV. And we know that ionization energy of P3OT is 4.7eV from the cyclic voltammetry.

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