journal article·2010-02-24Open access

Bicolor Electroluminescent Pixels from Single Active Molecular Material

Ilenia Viola, Claudia Piliego, Laura Favaretto, Giovanna Barbarella, Roberto Cingolani, Giuseppe Gigli

Abstract

We report on the fabrication of the first bicolor micropixelated OLED from a single molecular material using a single-step bottom up procedure. The implementation of a deposition technique, based on a spatial-switch and conformational-sensitive STD surface-tension-driven lithography, has allowed us to exploit the spontaneous supramolecular properties and the conformational flexibility of a conjugated thiophene-based material, 6-bis-(50-hexyl-[2, 20]bithiophen-5-yl)-3, 5-dimethyl-dithieno[3, 2-b; 20, 30-d]thiophene (DTT7Me). The existence of two regularly alternating emitting regions on a micrometer scale allows obtaining electroluminescent emission at two different wavelengths from a single material.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials · Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

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Affiliations

National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of INFM-CNR, Distretto tecnologico ISUFI, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Via Morego, 30, 16163 Genova, Italy, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività (ISOF), Area di Ricerca CNR, Via Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy

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