The focus of this study is mono-layer polymer light emitting diode (PLED). The emitting layer is poly-p-phenylenebenzobisoxazole (PBO). PBO is a fully conjugated heterocyclic aromatic rigid-rod polymer. Anode is indium-tin-oxide (ITO). Cathode is aluminum (Al). We used UV epoxy resin to package PLED devices, then measured current-voltage response, electroluminescence (EL) emission, and device lifetime.
We demonstrate that the packaged mono-layer PBO LED reduced its demise from water and oxygen. Device lifetime increased from 1 hour to several hundred hours. At a larger bias voltage or current, emission intensity and device efficiency became higher. But decay rate increased leading to shortened device lifetime. Device temperature appeared linearly with current density. A red shift of the EL emission was observed. The £fmax. of emission spectra moved from 534 nm (initial) to 582 nm (after 100 hrs).
After thermal annealing at 120¢J for ten hours, threshold voltage increased from 5 V to 12 V, current density decreased to several 10 mA/cm2, luminous intensity improved several ten times to 10-2 cd/m2, emission color changed from yellow-green to orange, luminous efficiency improved from 10-7 to 10-4 cd/A, but device lifetime declined to less than 20 hrs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0720104-230759 |
| Date | 20 July 2004 |
| Creators | Liao, Hung-chi |
| Contributors | Ming Chen, Bae-heng Tseng, Shin-jung Bai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0720104-230759 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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