TY - JOUR A1 - Asawapirom, Udom A1 - Bulut, F. A1 - Farrell, Tony A1 - Gadermaier, C. A1 - Gamerith, S. A1 - Güntner, Roland A1 - Kietzke, Thomas A1 - Patil, S. A1 - Piok, T. A1 - Montenegro, Rivelino V. D. A1 - Stiller, Burkhard A1 - Tiersch, Brigitte A1 - Landfester, Katharina A1 - List, E. J. W. A1 - Neher, Dieter A1 - Torres, C. S. A1 - Scherf, Ullrich T1 - Materials for polymer electronics applications semiconducting polymer thin films and nanoparticles N2 - The paper presents two different approaches to nanostructured semiconducting polymer materials: (i) the generation of aqueous semiconducting polymer dispersions (semiconducting polymer nanospheres SPNs) and their processing into dense films and layers, and (ii) the synthesis of novel semiconducting polyfluorene-block-polyaniline (PF-b-PANI) block copolymers composed of conjugated blocks of different redox potentials which form nanosized morphologies in the solid state Y1 - 2004 SN - 1022-1360 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yang, Xiao Hui A1 - Jaiser, Frank A1 - Neher, Dieter A1 - Lawson, PaDreyia V. A1 - Brédas, Jean-Luc A1 - Zojer, Egbert A1 - Güntner, Roland A1 - Scanduicci de Freitas, Patricia A1 - Forster, Michael A1 - Scherf, Ullrich T1 - Suppression of the keto-emission in polyfluorene light-emitting diodes : Experiments and models N2 - The spectral characteristics of polyfluorene (PF)-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) containing a defined low concentration of either keto-defects or of the polymer poly(9.9-octylfuorene-co-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) are preseneted. Both types of blend layers were tested in different device configurations with respect to the relative and absolute intensities of green blue emission components. It is shown that blending hole-transporting molecules into the emission layer at low concentration or incorporation of a suitable hole-transport layer reduces the green emission contribution in the electroluminescence (EL) spectrum of the PF:F8BT blend, which is similar to what is observed for the keto- containing PF layer. We conclude that the keto-defects in PF homopolymer layers mainly constitute weakly emissive electron traps, in agreement with the results of quantum-mechanical calculations Y1 - 2004 SN - 1616-301X ER -