Full spin-coated multilayer structure hybrid light-emitting devices

We report on a multilayer structure hybrid light-emitting device (HLED) using a water/alcohol-soluble polymer poly(9,9-bis{30-[(N,N-dimethyl)-N-ethylammonium}-propyl]-2,7-fluorene dibromide) as an electron-transporting layer and a close-packed quantum dot-layer (QD-layer) as an emitting layer. The device was realized by full spin-coating technology without thermal evaporation process for the deposition of organic layers. The QD-layer was a mixture of QDs with two different sizes, in which large size QD-emitters were dispersed in small size QDs to weaken the concentration quenching. The device achieved a maximum power efficiency of 0.58 lm/W, which nearly quadrupled that of the HLED with a plain large size QD-EML. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics.[doi: 10.1063/1.3484145]