Polymer light-emitting devices based on plasma-polymerized benzene and plasma-polymerized naphthalene

Polymer light-emitting devices (PLED) were fabricated utilizing plasma-polymerized benzene (PPB) and plasma-polymerized naphthalene (PPN) as an electroluminescent (EL) emitting layer. The plasma polymerization is well suited for forming the transparent, sturdy thin film for EL polymer layers. For the ITO/PPB/Al and ITO/PPN/Al devices, the turn-on voltage of the device was at 12V and 6V, respectively. The luminance of the PPB device reached 6 cdm ^-2 at 10 V, whereas the PPN device reached 11 cd m ^-2 at 14 V. The external quantum efficency was 0.0035% for the PPB device and 0.0056% for the PPN device. The dense crosslinked structure formed by the plasma polymerization makes the EL device relatively stable during operation. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers