Highly efficient and stable blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes based on polyfluorenes with carbazole pendent groups as hole-transporting materials |
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Affiliation: | 1. Research Institute for Natural Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea;2. Center for Advanced Instrumentation, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | Highly efficient and stable blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) have been realized by using poly (9,9-bis(N-(2′-ethylhexyl)-carbazole-3-yl)-2,7-fluorene) (PFCz) as hole-transporting layers (HTLs). Due to the carbazole units as substituents at the 9-position of polyfluorene, PFCz shows higher hole mobility and better electrochemical stability than poly (N-vinlycarbazole) (PVK). As a result, the maximum current efficiency (CE) and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of the blue QD-LEDs increased from 4.32 cd A−1 to 7.9% for PVK HTL to 7.38 cd A−1 and 12.61% for PFCz HTL, respectively. Furthermore, the PFCz-based blue QD-LED exhibited lower turn-on voltage and longer device lifetime than the PVK-based device. The improvement performance of blue QD-LED should be attributed to the conjugated fluorene backbone and the substituents of the carbazole active sites, thus enhancing hole mobility and electrochemical stability. This result demonstrates that polyfluorenes with pendent carbazole groups is a promising hole-transporting materials for improving performance of blue QD-LEDs. |
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Keywords: | Polyfluorene Cabozale poly(N-vinlycarbzaole) Hole transporting materials Blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes |
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