Composition comprising polymeric organic semiconducting compounds
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsPhilip Edward May, Mark James, Susanne Heun, Katie Court
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Abstract
The present invention relates to novel compositions comprising one or more polymeric organic semiconducting (OSC) compounds and one or more organic solvents. The composition preferably comprises 3,4-dimethyl anisole as solvent. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these compositions as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
Claims16
A composition comprising one or more organic semiconducting compounds (OSC) having a molecular weight of at least 10,000 g/mol, and one or more organic solvents, wherein said organic solvent comprises a mono- or di(C1-C5-alkyl)anisole, wherein said semiconducting compound (OSC) having a molecular weight of at least 10,000 g/mol contains at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of triarylamine, benzidine, tetraaryl-para-phenylenediamine, triarylphosphine, phenothiazine, phenoxazine, dihydrophenazine, thianthrene, dibenzo-para-dioxin, phenoxathiyne, carbazole, azulene, thiophene, pyrrole and furan derivatives and further O, S or N containing heterocycles having an HOMO in the polymer of greater than −5.8 eV, or wherein said semiconducting compound (OSC) having a molecular weight of at least 10,000 g/mol contains at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of pyridine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, pyrazine, oxadiazole, quinoline, quinoxaline, anthracene, benzanthracene, pyrene, perylene, benzimidazole, triazine, ketone, phosphine oxide, phenazine derivatives, and triarylboranes and further O, S or N containing heterocycles having an LUMO of less than −1.9 eV, or wherein said semiconducting compound (OSC) having a molecular weight of at least 10,000 g/mol contains at least one structural unit selected from the group consisting of 4,5-dihydropyrene, 4,5,9,10-tetrahydropyrene, fluorene, 9,9′-spirobifluorene, phenanthrene, 9,10-dihydro-phenanthrene, 5,7-dihydrodibenzoxepine, cis- and trans-indenofluorene and derivatives thereof, and wherein the composition comprises a viscosity at 25° C. in the range of 1.0 to 100 mPas.
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