Abstract:
A composition comprising a polymer and at least one phosphorescent light-emitting dopant wherein: the polymer comprises a polymer backbone and charge transporting groups pendant from the polymer backbone; the polymer backbone is partially conjugated; and the polymer has a triplet energy level of at least 2.4 eV.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a crosslinkable light-emitting composition comprising at least one host material, at least one phosphorescent light-emitting dopant, a first crosslinker comprising an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond group and a second crosslinker comprising a ring system capable of undergoing ring-opening crosslinking.
Abstract:
A method of forming a crosslinked polymer comprising the step of reacting a crosslinkable group in the presence of a polymer, wherein: the crosslinkable group comprises a core unit substituted with at least one crosslinkable unit of formula (I): the crosslinkable group is bound to the polymer or is a crosslinkable compound mixed with the polymer; Ar is aryl or heteroaryl which may be unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from monovalent substituents and a divalent linking group linking the unit of formula (I) to the core unit; and R is independently in each occurrence H, a monovalent substituent or a divalent linking group linking the unit of formula (I) to the core unit, with the proviso that at least one R is not H.
Abstract:
A pixel driver circuit for an active matrix OLED display comprises: a current programming line to source or sink a programming current for said pixel driver circuit; a range control line to receive a range control signal; a scaling circuit coupled to said current programming line and to said range control line, wherein said scaling circuit is configured to provide a scaled current output dependent on said programming current scaled by said range control signal; and an OLED driver circuit coupled to said scaled current output of said scaling circuit, wherein said OLED driver circuit has a pixel select line and is configured such that activating said pixel select line programs said OLED driver circuit to drive an OLED coupled to said OLED driver circuit with a current dependent on said scaled current output of said scaling circuit.
Abstract:
A printing method for use in fabrication of an electronic unit comprising one or more lines of a regularly repeating structural feature (108) formed over a substrate, the structural feature repeating over a regular interval along each line. The method comprises: using a first print-head arrangement (110a) to print portions of a composition (206s) at a first pitch along each of the lines; and using a second print-head arrangement to print portions of the composition at a second pitch along each of the lines; such that the first and second pitches together produce a beating pattern along each of the lines, having a beating wavelength (S) matched to the interval of the regularly repeating structural feature.
Abstract:
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, the display comprising: a substrate bearing a plurality of OLED pixels, each said pixel having associated control circuitry, wherein said control circuitry includes at least one memory element for storing a value to determine a luminance of an associated OLED pixel, and wherein said control circuitry has a pixel data input to receive and store, using said memory element, luminance data determining said luminance of said associated OLED pixel; wherein said control circuitry is configured to control both a current through a said OLED pixel and a duration for which said current flows through said pixel; and wherein the same luminance data controls both said current and said duration such that said luminance of the associated said OLED pixel has a non-linear response to said luminance data.
Abstract:
A species for use, for example, in a charge transfer layer of a photovoltaic device, the species comprising an acceptor group to which is fused a tuning group. The species can be a small molecule, polymer or oligomer, and monomers for producing said polymer, photovoltaic devices comprising said species, and methods for producing said device, are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting material and a triplet-accepting unit comprising an optionally substituted compound of formula (I): The composition may be used in an organic light-emitting device; the optionally substituted compound of formula (I) may be blended with or attached to the fluorescent light emitting material; and the composition may be deposited by solution deposition.
Abstract:
Light-emitting and / or charge transporting polymers, methods of making the same, and organic light emitting devices comprising such polymers, the polymers comprising a repeat unit of formula (I) in which CT represents a conjugated charge-transporting group, each Ar independently represents an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, q is at least 1, and each Sp independently represents a spacer group forming a break in conjugation between Ar and CT.
Abstract:
An organic electroluminescent device having a plurality of pixels, the device comprising : an anode (204) formed on a substrate (202); an organic electroluminescent layer (208) formed on the anode in each well of a well - defining layer (206) to form the plurality of pixels; a cathode layer (210) on the electroluminescent layer and a layer of metal (210) on the top surface of the well - defining layer; wherein a conductive layer (212) is deposited over the cathode layer and the metal layer to electrically connect the cathode layer on the electroluminescent layer with the metal layer on the top surface of the well - defining layer.