A Thermal Transfer Approach for the Doping of Organic LEDs

Abstract

An effective process of performing controllable doping of polymer films in organic light-emitting devices is reported. In this approach a film to be doped is brought into direct contact with a dye-dispersed polymer donor film to permit direct dye- diffusion thermal transfer. Theoretical and experimental studies indicate that this doping process can be modeled by Fick's diffusion theory, and that a desired dopant distribution from shallow to flat profiles may be obtained in a single transfer step by adjusting the diffusion conditions. Doped-polymer light-emitting devices made by this process and the conventional blending process exhibited same device characteristics. Along with patterned color donor plates, we demonstrated multicolor OLEDs of arbitrary patterns over large areas with a single thermal transfer step.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP011313

Entities

People

  • Cheng-chung Yang
  • Chieh-wei Chen
  • Chung-chih Wu
  • Hsin-hua Chang

Organizations

  • National Taiwan University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Coatings
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Diffusion Theory
  • Fabrication
  • Glass Transition Temperature
  • Macromolecules
  • Manufacturing
  • Molecules
  • Organic Compounds
  • Organic Materials
  • Polymeric Films
  • Polymers
  • Printing
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Substrates
  • Transition Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.