OLEDs
OLEDs
OLEDs
Research team
Jorge Morgado Ana Charas Lus Alccer Rui Henriques Manuel Matos Gabriel Bernardo Contract POCI/QUI/58291/2004
OLEDs are thin film devices which use electroluminescent organic materials. The advantages of organic materials derive from the easiness of chemical manipulation to tune the colours and to obtain low-cost processability such as inkjet printing on plastic substrates.
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) is based on two electrodes of different work functions such as Ca, and Indium tin oxide, (ITO), separated by an electroluminescent (EL) polymer, which emits light when electrons and holes are injected from the electrodes. In this case, a layer of a hole conducting polymer (PEDOT/PSS) is added.
The emitting colour is controlled through chemical modification of the molecular structure. Engineering the molecular structure can also provide solubility for easy processing as well as optimisation of luminescence efficiency
Materials
LEDs based on both low molecular, sublimed materials and on solution processable electroluminescent polymers have been studied. In particular, we have synthesised and characterised a family of electroluminescent copolymers, derived from polyfluorene. We showed how their properties depend on their molecular structure.