Blue electroluminescence from oxadiazole grafted poly(phenylene-ethynylene)s

Craig A Breen; Sandra Rifai; Vladimir Bulović; Timothy M Swager

doi:10.1021/nl050995p

Blue electroluminescence from oxadiazole grafted poly(phenylene-ethynylene)s

Nano Lett. 2005 Aug;5(8):1597-601. doi: 10.1021/nl050995p.

Authors

Craig A Breen¹, Sandra Rifai, Vladimir Bulović, Timothy M Swager

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Organic Optics and Electronics, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

PMID: 16089495
DOI: 10.1021/nl050995p

Abstract

Blue poly(phenylene-ethynylene) (PPE) electroluminescence is achieved in a single layer organic light emitting device. The polymeric system consists of an oxadiazole grafted PPE, which combines the necessary charge transport properties while maintaining the desirable efficient, narrow light-emitting properties of the PPE. Incorporation of a pentiptycene scaffold within the PPE structure prevents ground-state and excited-state interactions between the pendent oxadiazole units and the conjugated backbone.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Color
Electrochemistry / instrumentation*
Electrochemistry / methods
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Luminescent Measurements / instrumentation*
Materials Testing
Nanostructures / analysis
Nanostructures / chemistry*
Polymers / analysis
Polymers / chemistry*

Substances

Polymers
poly(phenylene ethynylene)