| Issue |
EPL
Volume 87, Number 5, September 2009
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 57008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/57008 | |
| Published online | 23 September 2009 | |
The role of triplet states in the emission mechanism of polymer light-emitting diodes
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - Columbia, MO 65211, USA
2
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore 560012, India
Corresponding authors: ramasesh@sscu.iisc.ernet.in guhas@missouri.edu
Received:
17
July
2009
Accepted:
27
August
2009
The blue emission of polyfluorene (PF)-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is known to degrade due to a low-energy green emission, which hitherto has been attributed to oxidative defects. By studying the electroluminescence (EL) from ethyl-hexyl substituted PF LEDs in the presence of oxygen and in an inert atmosphere, and by using trace quantities of paramagnetic impurities (PM) in the polymer, we show that the triplet states play a major role in the low-energy emission mechanism. Our time-dependent many-body studies show a large cross-section for the triplet formation in the EL process in the presence of PM, primarily due to electron-hole recombination processes.
PACS: 78.55.Kz – Solid organic materials / 78.60.Fi – Electroluminescence / 71.10.Li – Excited states and pairing interactions in model systems
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