Abstract
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on chromophore-containing liquid crystals (LCs) can emit polarized light due to self-assembly of mesogenic chromophores. The stability of LC phases in LC polymers with a mesogenic group in the main chain is higher than that in the polymers containing a mesogenic group in the side chain. In this study, a novel family of polyesters containing a carbazole moiety as a hole-transporting unit and an oxadiazole (OXD) moiety as an electron-transporting unit in the main chain, P10-DOXDCz and P16-DOXDCz, were designed and synthesized. These polyesters were prepared by transesterification of N-hexyl-3,6-di[2-([1,3,4]oxadiazol-5-yl)-4-methylbenzoate]carbazole and 1,10-decanediol or 1,16-hexadecanediol at 220 °C for 20 h. They showed a nematic phase. Both P10-DOXDCz and P16-DOXDCz emitted intense blue fluorescence with a maximum at 439 nm and 450 nm in thin films, respectively, and their fluorescence quantum yields were 0.74 and 0.81 in solution, respectively. Both compounds exhibited polarized emission in a LC phases, and the order parameters estimated from the polarized emission spectra were 0.10 for P10-DOXDCz and 0.14 for P16-DOXDCz. Fabricated devices, ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P10-DOXDCz and P16-DOXDCz/MgAg, emitted blue light when a positive voltage was applied to the ITO electrode.
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