Optimizing the Performance of Multilayered Organic Polymer Devices Using Computational Dimer Approach—A Case Study
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Abstract
The construction of multilayered organic polymer devices often involves long experimental searches for the combinations of polymers that give the optimum device performance. Combinations of different fluorene-based conjugated polymers such as alternating triphenylamine–fluorene (TPAF)- and oxadiazole–fluorene (OxF)-based conjugated copolymers were considered as components of multilayered organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). It was found that the OxF3–TPAF2 combination gave the best OLED performance. Theoretical/experimental investigations of the properties of single (isolated) polymer chains did not yield conclusive evidence for choosing OxF3–TPAF2 over other similar combinations. For multilayered OLEDs, the interfacial region is critical to the performance of a device. Hence, in this work, we focus on studying the properties of the various pairs of monomers of OxF n and TPAF n ( n = 1–3) copolymers. We analyze their electronic structures and binding energies using the dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT/B97D) method. Our results illustrate that the (empirically favorable) combination of OxF3 and TPAF2 monomers, with their chain lengths and HOMO–LUMO energy gaps well matched, has the closest intermolecular distance and the highest binding energy of all the combinations of OxF n and TPAF n ( n = 1–3) monomers. This study illustrates that (heterogeneous) dimer properties can be used to determine the best matching between polymers and hence optimal performance in multilayered devices.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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