Large‐Area Blade‐Coated Deep‐Blue Polymer Light‐Emitting Diodes with a Narrowband and Uniform Emission
Shengjie Wang, Lili Sun, Yingying Zheng, Yahui Zhang, Ningning Yu, Jinghao Yang, Mengyuan Li, Wenyu Chen, Liangliang He, Bin Liu, Mingjian Ni, Heyuan Liu, Man Xu, Lubing Bai, Jinyi Lin, Wei Huang
Abstract
Abstract Large‐area polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) manufactured by printing are required for flat‐panel lighting and displays. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to fabricate large‐area and stable deep‐blue PLEDs with narrowband emission due to the difficulties in precisely tuning film uniformity and obtaining single‐exciton emission. Herein, efficient and stable large‐area deep‐blue PLEDs with narrowband emission are prepared from encapsulated polydiarylfluorene. Encapsulated polydiarylfluorenes presented an efficient and stable deep‐blue emission (peak: 439 nm; full width at half maximum (FWHM): 39 nm) in the solid state due to their single‐chain emission behavior without inter‐backbone chain aggregation. Large‐area uniform blade‐coated films (16 cm 2 ) are also fabricated with excellent smoothness and morphology. Benefitting from efficient emission and excellent printed capacity, the blade‐coated PLEDs with a device area of 9 mm 2 realized uniform deep‐blue emission (FWHM: 38 nm; CIE: 0.153, 0.067), with a corresponding maximum external quantum efficiency and the brightness comparable to those of devices based on spin‐coated films. Finally, considering the essential role of deep‐blue LEDs, a preliminary patterned PLED array with a pixel size of 800 × 1000 µm 2 and a monochrome display is fabricated, highlighting potential full‐color display applications.