Photo- and electroluminescence of ambipolar, high-mobility, donor-acceptor polymers

Martin Held; Yuriy Zakharko; Ming Wang; Florian Jakubka; Florentina Gannott; Joseph W. Rumer; Raja Shahid Ashraf; Iain McCulloch; Jana Zaumseil

doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2016.02.030

Photo- and electroluminescence of ambipolar, high-mobility, donor-acceptor polymers

Martin Held, Yuriy Zakharko, Ming Wang, Florian Jakubka, Florentina Gannott, Joseph W. Rumer, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Iain McCulloch, Jana Zaumseil^*

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Donor-acceptor polymers with narrow bandgaps are promising materials for bulk heterojunction solar cells and high-mobility field-effect transistors. They also emit light in the near-infrared. Here we investigate and compare the photoluminescence and electroluminescence properties of different narrow bandgap (<1.5 eV) donor-acceptor polymers with diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP), isoindigo (IGT) and benzodipyrrolidone (BPT) cores, respectively. All of them show near-infrared photoluminescence quantum yields of 0.03-0.09% that decrease with decreasing bandgap. Bottom-contact/top-gate field-effect transistors show ambipolar charge transport with hole and electron mobilities between 0.02 and 0.7 cm² V^-1 s^-1 and near-infrared electroluminescence. Their external quantum efficiencies reach up to 0.001%. The effect of polaron quenching and other reasons for the low electroluminescence efficiency of these high mobility polymers are investigated.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	220-227
Number of pages	8
Journal	Organic Electronics
Volume	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2016.02.030
State	Published - May 2016

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Keywords

Ambipolar
Donor-acceptor polymers
Electroluminescence
Field-effect transistors
Photoluminescence
Polaron quenching

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomaterials
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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