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Doping Evolution and Junction Formation in Stacked Cyanine Dye Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

Jenatsch, Sandra
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Wang, Lei  
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Bulloni, Matia
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2016
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Cyanine dyes are fluorescent organic salts with intrinsic conductivity for ionic and electronic charges. Recently (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18008-18011), these features have been exploited in cyanine light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). Here, we demonstrate that stacked, constant-voltage driven trimethine cyanine LECs with various counteranions develop a p-i-n junction that is composed of p- and n-doped zones and an intrinsic region where light-emission occurs. We introduce a method that combines spectral photocurrent response measurements with optical modeling and find that at maximum current the intrinsic region is centered at similar to 37% away from the anode. Transient capacitance, photoluminescence and attenuance experiments indicate a device situation with a narrow p-doped region, an undoped region that occupies similar to 72% of the dye layer thickness and an n-doped region with a maximum doping concentration of 0.08 dopant/cyanine molecule. Finally, we observe that during device relaxation the parent cyanines are not reformed. We ascribe this to irreversible reactions between doped cyanine radicals. For sterically conservative cyanine dyes, this suggests that undesired radical decomposition pathways limit the LEC song-term stability in general.

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DOI
10.1021/acsami.5b12055
Web of Science ID

WOS:000372479300031

Author(s)
Jenatsch, Sandra
Wang, Lei  
Bulloni, Matia
Veron, Anna C.
Ruhstaller, Beat
Altazin, Stephane
Nueesch, Frank
Hany, Roland
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume

8

Issue

10

Start page

6554

End page

6562

Subjects

light-emitting electrochemical cell

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cyanine dye

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doping

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charge injection

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intrinsic junction

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REVIEWED

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July 19, 2016
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