Electrochemical Tuning of Morphological and Optoelectronic Characteristics of Donor–Acceptor Spiro-Fluorene Polymer Film. Application in the Building of an Electroluminescent Device

Abstract

The electrochemical polymerization conditions for the synthesis of spirobifluorene-based polymer (EF-CN1) films with adequate properties to be applied in an organic light emitting diode (OLED) were studied. We demonstrate that, after optimization in the parameters of electrochemical polymerization, we were able to obtain a conducting polymeric film with very smooth surface, absence of pinholes, and high optoelectronic activity, which was compatible as an efficient hole transporting layer in OLED. The electrochemical deposited polymers, and polymer films obtained through drop casting from solution of chemically synthesized polymer (C-CN1), were characterized and the results compared. The films were studied by cyclic voltammetry, UV–vis, fluorescence spectra, scanning electron mictroscopy, and atomic force microscopy. The built OLEDs achieve current-luminous efficiency and external quantum efficiency of 2.6 cd/A and 0.50%, respectively.