Hu Jun-tao,Ye Kang-li,Huang Yang,Wang Peng,Xu Kai,Wang Xiang-hua
In this paper, p-chlorophenylacetic acid and p-fluorophenylacetic acid were applied to modify the indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. The surface work functions of unmodified ITO, p-chlorophenylacetic acid modified ITO (Cl-ITO) and p-fluorophenylacetic acid modified ITO (F-ITO) are 5.0 eV, 5.26 eV and 5.14 eV, respectively, and the water contact angles are 7.3°, 59.1° and 46.5°, respectively. The increase of the work function makes the hole injection ability of the devices improved, which is proved by the hole transport devices. The self-assembly (SAM) layers transfer hydrophilic ITO to hydrophobic ITO, which makes ITO more compatible with the hydrophobic organic layers, making the organic film more stable during the operation. After modification, the organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), SAM-modified ITO/NPB/Alq3/LiF/Al, with better performance and stability were fabricated. Especially, the OLED with Cl-ITO (Cl-OLED) has a maximum luminance of 22 428 cd/m 2 (improved by 32.9%) and a half-lifetime of 46 h. Our results suggest that employing organic acids to modify ITO surface can enhance the stability and the luminescent properties of OLED devices.
In this study, we intend to solve the problem of the low glass transition temperature (Tg) and the high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that colorless polyimide (PI) films always exhibit. First, we copolymerized 2,2′-bis(trifluoromethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4,4′-diamine (TFDB) with 4,4′-(hexafluoroisopropene) diphthalic anhydride (6FDA) and p-phthaloyl chloride (TPC) and obtained a series of transparent and colorless films (PAI-10). These PAI films showed a high Tg of 346–362 °C and a low CTE of 25.2–62.9 ppm/K, which were better than those of PI6FDA-TFDB. Subsequently, three rigid diamines, p-phenylenediamine (p-PDA), 5-amino-2-(4-aminophenyl)benzoxazole (DAPBO) and 5-amino-2-(4-aminophenyl)benzimidazole (DAPBI), were used to replace 10% of the TFDB (PAI-9P-5, PAI-9O-5, and PAI-9I-5, respectively) to investigate the effect of the rigid structure on the thermal and optical properties. The results showed that rigid structures can greatly improve the thermal properties but impair transparency to some extent. Among these, PAI-9O-5 possessed the best performance with T430 of 81.9%, Tg of 364 °C, and CTE of 19.8 ppm/K. Furthermore, we fabricated an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) with PAI-9O-5 as the substrate. The flexible and bendable OLED@PAI-9O-5 showed typical green emission at 520 nm, a turn-on voltage of 2.9 V, a luminance of 1000 cd/m2 at 5 V, a current efficiency (CE) of 2.53 cd/A, and an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 0.81%, which were comparable to those of devices fabricated on conventional glass substrates.