Self organizing polymer films - a route to novel electronic devices based on conjugated polymers

• Polymer blends are often used in polymer light emitting diodes as a tool to increase the efficiency of the devices. In this report, we show the necessity to take the phase separation properties of such blends into account, as the miscibility of the involved polymers drastically affects the resulting film structure. By using phase separated polymer blends involving conjugated poly(thiophenes) and different nonconjugated polymers as matrices, different types of applications, such as light emitting diodes with improved voltage control of emitted colour, sub-micron size LEDs and anisotropic conductors are demonstrated. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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polymer blends; conjugated polymers; light emitting diodes

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