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Wiley, physica status solidi (a) – applications and materials science, 11(205), p. 2522-2525, 2008

DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200780213

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All‐organic optocouplers based on polymer light‐emitting diodes and photodetectors

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Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate all organic flexible polymeric optocouplers by utilizing a donor-acceptor bulk heterojunction polymer photodetector (PD) as the output unit and a polymer light-emitting diode (PLED) as the input unit. The input unit is a single-layer PLED on a glass or a plastic (PET) substrate utilizing a green emitting polyfluorene-benzothiadiazole copolymer in the active layer. The output unit is a single-layer PD on a glass substrate utilizing a P3HT:PCBM(1:1 by weight) blend, where P3HT is regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and PCBM is (6,6)-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester. The electroluminescence spectrum of the PLED peaks at 530 nm and covers a spectral range that coincides quite well with the PD absorption spectrum (between 450 and 650 nm). The current density transfer ratio reaches 0.012% for an optocoupler that operates at 0 V and 15 V for the PD and PLED, respectively. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)