Abstract
A series of novel arylene ether polymers (P5F-BCzVFs) containing both pentafluorene (5F) and distyrylarylene derivative (BCzVF) units in the side chains for efficient pure blue light emission were prepared by a facile, metal-free condensation polymerization. The emission spectra indicated that color tuning could be achieved through efficient Förster energy transfer from the deep-blue 5F host to the pure-blue BCzVF dopant. Single-layer polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) based on P5F-BCzVFs (ITO/(PEDOT:PSS)/polymer/Ca/Al) exhibited voltage-independent and stable pure blue emission with a Commission International de L'Eclairage (CIE) coordinate of (0.15, 0.15), a maximum brightness of 3576 cd/m2, and a maximum luminous efficiencies of 2.15 cd/A, respectively. As most polymers with dopant-host systems, the luminous efficiencies of all P5F-BCzVFs surpassed that of the host-only polymer (P5F), due to the energy transfer and charge trapping from the host to the dopant. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011
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