An organic down-converting material for white-light emission from hybrid LEDs.
An organic down-converting material for white-light emission from hybrid LEDs.
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DOI:
10.1002/adma.201402661
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发表时间:
2014-11-19
影响因子:
29.4
通讯作者:
Skabara, Peter J.
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Findlay, Neil J.;Bruckbauer, Jochen;Inigo, Anto R.;Breig, Benjamin;Arumugam, Sasikumar;Wallis, David J.;Martin, Robert W.;Skabara, Peter J.
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201402661 the visible to infrared spectrum.[7] Highly efficient blue emission is achieved by forming a quantum well structure of alternating thin layers of GaN and InGaN. Such hybrid inorganic/organic LED architectures offer the potential to combine the advantages of both technologies, for example, the excellent electro nic properties of inorganic substrates and the broad, tunable emission of organic semiconductors.[8] Furthermore, employing an organic material in place of traditional phosphors in hybrid LEDs would avoid an industry dependency on costly rare-earth containing materials as demand for solid-state lighting grows.[9] The higher speed of response of the organic materials compared to the existing phosphors offers additional advantages for applications such as visible light communications.[10] The 4, 4-difluoro-4-borata-3 a-azonia-4 a-aza-s-indacene unit, hereafter referred to as BODIPY, has received widespread attention in recent years due to its attractive combination of properties including good solubility in a range of solvents, high absorptivity and high photoluminescence efficiency.[11] As such, BODIPY is synonymous with numerous applications, such as biological labelling [12] and sensors for ion detection.[13] The use of BODIPY as the emissive component of a luminescent device is an interesting prospect due to its strong and tunable emissive properties; however, although the absorption band is intense, it is narrow and confined to around 500 nm.[11a] Hence, the combination of BODIPY with an absorbing partner unit, providing a more complex structure sensitive to higher energy wavelengths, is a useful method for developing designer organic molecules suitable for application in hybrid LED devices. Recently, we reported a novel family of linear oligofluorene-BODIPYs that are useful compounds for the downconversion of UV light into visible light when drop-cast onto commercially available LEDs.[14] In this communication, we present the synthesis of a novel organic energy down-converting material,[BODFluTh] 2FB, and its application as the coemitter with a commercial blue LED. The resulting hybrid device demonstrates visible white light emission under a range of injection currents. The molecule [BODFluTh] 2FB was prepared via Stille coupling of compounds 1 and 2 in moderate yield and isolated as a bright orange powder (Scheme 1). The structure of [BODFluTh] 2FB was determined using standard analytical methods. The material was thermally stable, with 5% mass loss observed only upon heating to 395 C. Additional thermal data was obtained following differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), with several thermal transitions evident, including values for Tg (128 C), Tc (191 C) and Tm (315 C and 324 C). In order to determine the suitability of [BODFluTh] 2FB for the down-conversion of light, UV–vis absorption and emission spectra were recorded in dichloromethane solution (Figure 1a).Materials suitable as active components in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have attracted widespread interest in recent years, as this technology develops towards replacing existing less efficient technologies, eg, incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, in consumer applications such as solid-state lighting.[1] To this end, both polymers [2] and molecular structures [3] have been exploited. While polymers offer high luminescence and solubility, they can suffer from problems associated with high polydispersity and batchto-batch reproducibility. Molecular or oligomeric systems offer advantages such as monodispersity, synthetic reproducibility and, depending on structure and device fabrication requirements, they can be …
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