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Sci Rep
; 6: 36643, 2016 11 04.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27811991
RESUMO
In this work, we demonstrate the use of the biodegradable polymer polycaprolactone (PCL) as the ion solvating polymer in solution-processed light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC). We show that the inclusion of PCL in the active layer yields higher ionic conductivities and thus contributes to a rapid formation of the dynamic p-i-n junction and reduction of operating voltages. PCL shows no phase separation with the emitter polymer and reduces film roughness. The devices show light-emission at voltages as low as 3.2 V and lifetimes on the order of 30 h operating above 150 cd m-2 with turn-on times <20 s and current and luminous efficacies of 3.2 Cd A-1 and 1.5 lm W-1 respectively.