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improved device performances as well as colour stability.11c As
shown in Fig. 3, FSO-FPF6 exhibited a pure blue-emission peaked
at around 474 nm and the excimer emission of typical
of the FSO-FX, EL spectra dependences upon varied applied
current were carried out (Fig. S7, ESI*). It was found that with
accelerating applied current from 2 mA to 20 mA, the EL spectra
polyfluorene homopolymers in the long wavelength 10 of FSO-FPF6 were almost unchanged with emission peak located
disappeared,18 which is similar to those SO-based blue-emitting
conjugated polymers.11 In order to investigate the colour stability
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at 474 nm, indicating its excellent colour stability.
Table 1 EL Performance of the FSO-FX in the devices with configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/emission layer/Al.
LEmax[cd A−1]
Von[V]a)
L[cd m−2]b)
LE [cd A−1]c)
Lmax[cd m−2]
EQEmax(%)
1.78
Voc[V]
0.96
FSO-FPF6
FSO-FBr
5.5
86
85
0.92
281
2.60
6.0
0.84
435
1.14
0.74
0.82
FSO-FBIm4
4.7
151
1.51
777
1.53
1.24
1.02
a) The turn-on voltage at which luminescence reach 1 cd m-2. b) Brightness at current density around 10 mA cm-2. c) Luminous efficiency
at a current density around 10 mA cm-2.
The EL properties of the FSO-FX with different counterions 50 further develop high performance host-guest interaction based
15 were also investigated. It was found that the EL spectra of FSO-
supramolecular optoelectronic materials for optoelectronic
applications.
PF6 and FSO-FBIm4 were similar with their PL spectra, while
FSO-FBr showed a largely red-shifted EL emission compared to
its PL emission, which were attributed to the strong electrostatic
attractions in FSO-FBr. Since it has been found that counterions
20 can largely affect the electron injection properties of those
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The work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science
and Technology (No. 2014CB643501), the Natural Science
Foundation of China (No. 21125419 and 51361165301) and
Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Grant No.
S2012030006232). Dr J. Zhang thanks the support of China
traditional
conjugated
polyelectrolytes,9
photovoltaic
measurements were performed to determine the build-in potential
across the devices, which can reflect the barrier height of the
charge injection in devices and hence the charge injection 60 Postdoctoral Science Foundation (no. 2012M521598).
25 properties of the corresponding materials.16 It was found that the
open-circuit voltage (Voc) ranked in the order of FSO-FBr (0.82
Notes and references
a Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, State Key
Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China
V) < FSO-FPF6 (0.96 V) < FSO-FBIm4 (1.02V), which is
consistent with the turn-on voltage (Von) order of the OLED
devices (Table 1). Among all the FSO-FX, FSO-FBIm4 exhibited
30 the best comprehensive device performance with the lowest Von
of 4.7 V, a LE of 1.51 cd A-1 with a L of 281 cd m-2 at the current
density around 10 mA cm-2 and a more pure blue-emission
compared to FSO-PF6 and FSO-Br. Considering the relative high
PL quantum efficiencies of these materials, their device
35 performance may be further improved if used in the multilayer
PLEDs with suitable carrier transporting and blocking layers.
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University of Technology, 510640, Guangzhou, P. R. China. Fax: 86 20
65 87110606; Tel: 86 20 87114346; E-mail: msfhuang@scut.edu.cn
b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal
University, Nanchang 330022
† Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) available: Experimental
details, 1H NMR, DSC. See DOI: 10.1039/b00000x/
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