Highly-polarized emission from oriented films incorporating water soluble conjugated polymers in a polyvinyl alcohol matrix

F. Di Stasio, P. Korniychuk, S. Brovelli, P. Uznanski, S. O. McDonnell, G. Winroth, H. L. Anderson, A. Tracz and F. Cacialli, Weinheim (2011)

Highly oriented luminescent films are produced by stretching a 30-μm-thick polyvinyl alcohol matrix doped with water-soluble polyrotaxanes and their unthreaded analogues. Photoluminescence experiments reveal that over 95% of the emitted light is polarized along the orientation direction. A hybrid organic–inorganic light-emitting diode is built to investigate the possibility of using these films as polarizing filters for solid-state lighting and display technology.

Partners : UCL

Place of Publication : Weinheim

Date of Publication : 2011/03/01

Additional Data : Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 1855–1859

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