Dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels processed by hybrid inkjet printing

Shun-Chi Chang; Jayesh Bharathan; Roger Helgeson; Fred Wudl; Yang Yang; Michael B. Ramey; John R. Reynolds

doi:10.1117/12.332614

16 December 1998 Dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels processed by hybrid inkjet printing

Shun-Chi Chang, Jayesh Bharathan, Roger Helgeson, Fred Wudl, Yang Yang, Michael B. Ramey, John R. Reynolds

Proceedings Volume 3476, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332614
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We present a successful demonstration of controllable patterning of dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels using a hybrid inkjet printing technique. In this demonstration, the polymer buffer layer is a wide bandgap, blue emitting semiconducting polymer (PPP-NRt₃⁺), prepared by the spin-casting technique. The inkjet printed layer is a red-orange semiconductor polymer, (MPS-PPV) which was printed onto the buffer layer.When a proper solvent was selected, MPS-PPV diffused into the buffer layer and efficient energy transfer took place from the PPP-NEt₃⁺ to the MPS-PPV generating a red-orange photoluminescence and electroluminescence from the inkjet printed sites. Based on this principle, blue and orange-red dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels were fabricated on the same substrate. The use of this concept represents an entirely new technology for fabricating polymer multicolor displays with high-resolution, lateral patterning capability.

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Shun-Chi Chang, Jayesh Bharathan, Roger Helgeson, Fred Wudl, Yang Yang, Michael B. Ramey, and John R. Reynolds "Dual-color polymer light-emitting pixels processed by hybrid inkjet printing", Proc. SPIE 3476, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices II, (16 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332614

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