Improving Efficiency of Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diode with Sulfobutylated Lignin Doped PEDOT as Anode Buffer Layer

Yuan Li, Ying Wu, Weimei Zeng, Yuda Li, Lijia Xu, Xueqing Qiu, Runfeng Chen, Wei Huang

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Abstract

Water-soluble alkyl chain sulfobutylated lignosulfonate (ASLS) doped PEDOT was prepared with lignin as raw material. Water processable PEDOT:ASLS was applied as hole injection layer (HIL) to modify ITO. Blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode plays a key role for full color display and are very challenging. With PEDOT:ASLS as HIL, a highly enhanced current efficiency of 37.65 cd/A was achieved. Considering our device structure, the result is even better than that of the control device using PEDOT:PSS as HIL. Compared with PSS with regular structure, strong aggregation and oxidation behavior of ASLS contribute to the hole injection capability of PEDOT:ASLS. Considering that ASLS is of disordered and amorphous structure, which is very different from poly(styrene sulfonic acid), it is exciting that ASLS might be of promising potential as a sustainable dopant of PEDOT. More importantly, this work will guide the design of dopant of PEDOT.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2004-2011
Number of pages8
JournalACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Apr 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dopant
  • Hole transport material
  • Interface engineering
  • Organic electronic
  • PEDOT:PSS
  • Phenol radical
  • Solar cell

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