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Organic Light Emitting Devices Fabricated from Semiconducting Nanospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Thomas Piok ,
Franz P. Wenzl ,
Stefan Gamerith ,
Christoph Gadermaier ,
Satish Patil ,
Rivelino Montenegro ,
Thomas Kietzke ,
Dieter Neher ,
Ullrich Scherf  and
Katharina Landfester
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Thomas Piok
Affiliation:
Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Franz-Pichler-Strasse 30, A-8160 Weiz, Austria.
Franz P. Wenzl
Affiliation:
Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Stefan Gamerith
Affiliation:
Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Franz-Pichler-Strasse 30, A-8160 Weiz, Austria.
Christoph Gadermaier
Affiliation:
Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Franz-Pichler-Strasse 30, A-8160 Weiz, Austria.
Satish Patil
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, BUGH Wuppertal, Gauss-Str. 20 D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany.
Rivelino Montenegro
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus Golm, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany.
Thomas Kietzke
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany
Dieter Neher
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany
Ullrich Scherf
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, BUGH Wuppertal, Gauss-Str. 20 D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany.
Katharina Landfester
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus Golm, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany.
Emil J.W. List
Affiliation:
Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Christian Doppler Laboratory Advanced Functional Materials, Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Franz-Pichler-Strasse 30, A-8160 Weiz, Austria.
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Abstract

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been fabricated from organic semiconducting polymer nanospheres (SPNs) which have been deposited from aqueous dispersions. The active layer of the devices consists of a single, homogeneous layer of light emitting SPNs, as verified by optical, interferometric and surface probe measurements. Different batches of SPNs with different SPN diameters have been tested (69nm, 95nm, 126nm and 150 nm). All SPN-based OLEDs exhibit a light emission onset corresponding to the SPN energy gap (ca. 2.7 eV for m-LPPP, a semiconducting para-phenylene ladder polymer). The low onset is attributed to field enhanced injection of charge carriers at the aluminum cathode due to the formation of stalactite-type nanostructures. A detailed comparison of the SPN-based and bulk semiconducting polymer films reveals no differences in the basic optoelectronic properties.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 738: Symposium G – Spatially Resolved Characterization of Local Phenomena in Materials and Nanostructures , 2002 , G8.10
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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