An alignable fluorene thienothiophene copolymer with deep-blue electroluminescent emission at 410 nm

Malte C. Gather; Martin Heeney; Weimin Zhang; Katherine S. Whitehead; Donal D. C. Bradley; Iain McCulloch; Alasdair J. Campbell

doi:10.1039/B716510B

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An alignable fluorene thienothiophene copolymer with deep-blue electroluminescent emission at 410 nm†

Malte C. Gather,‡^a Martin Heeney,^b Weimin Zhang,^c Katherine S. Whitehead,^a Donal D. C. Bradley,^a Iain McCulloch^d and Alasdair J. Campbell*^a

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^a Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK
E-mail: alasdair.campbell@imperial.ac.uk

^b Department of Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK

^c Merck Chemicals, Chilworth Technical Centre, Southampton, UK

^d Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK

Abstract

An alignable, liquid-crystalline fluorene fused-ring thienothiophene copolymer has been synthesized with electroluminescence peaking at 410 nm for deep blue, polarised emission in polymer light-emitting diodes, light-emitting transistors and photonic structures.

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Details of synthetic procedures and analysis, DSC, PL temperature measurements, LED fabrication and measurement, aligned film fabrication, polarized absorption, PL and Raman spectroscopy measurements PDF (181K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B716510B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 26 Oct 2007
Accepted: 07 Dec 2007
First published: 07 Jan 2008

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Chem. Commun., 2008, 1079-1081

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An alignable fluorene thienothiophene copolymer with deep-blue electroluminescent emission at 410 nm

M. C. Gather, M. Heeney, W. Zhang, K. S. Whitehead, D. D. C. Bradley, I. McCulloch and A. J. Campbell, Chem. Commun., 2008, 1079 DOI: 10.1039/B716510B

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