Organic Electropolymerized Multilayers for Light-Emitting Diodes and Displays

Abstract

In electrochemistry, the carbazole is generally coupled to dimer but not to polymer. This work has reported that organic electropolymerization (OEP) of 4,4',4″-tri(<i>N</i>-carbazolyl)triphenylamine (TCTA) would form a high cross-linked carbazole polymer by its high activity/reversibility and a synchronous viscosity control. It has significantly improved the OEP film quality of both hole-transporting and electroluminescent layers in organic light-emitting diodes. As a result, the conductivity and power efficiency of the organic light-emitting diodes with TCTA are eight and four times of that without TCTA. A prototype display device with a 1.7 in. monochrome passive matrix of 58 ppi under the driving chip is successfully fabricated with accurate pixel size and uniform electroluminescence, which shows a great potential of OEP in the electroluminescent application.