• 文献标题:   Improved homogeneity and surface coverage of graphene oxide layers fabricated by horizontal-dip-coating for solution-processable organic semiconducting devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JEON HG, HUH YH, YUN SH, KIM KW, LEE SS, LIM J, AN KS, PARK B
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
  • ISSN:   2050-7526 EI 2050-7534
  • 通讯作者地址:   Kwangwoon Univ
  • 被引频次:   27
  • DOI:   10.1039/c3tc31933d
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We herein report an investigation of graphene oxide (GO) thin layers fabricated by simple horizontal-dip (H-dip) coating on an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) anode as used in solution-processable organic semiconducting devices. Homogeneous and smooth GO thin films were successfully deposited via an aqueous dispersion of GO on an ITO electrode, with a high surface coverage and low surface roughness, and a thickness controlled by H-dip coating. The use of an H-dip-coated GO film as a hole-injecting interfacial layer (IFL) in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) resulted in a remarkable improvement in device performance (17 cd A(-1)), better than that (12 cd A(-1)) of a reference OLED with a spin-coated GO IFL. Stacked bi-IFLs of GO/poly(ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (GO/PEDOT:PSS) fabricated by H-dip coating were also investigated as hole-injecting IFLs in OLEDs, and these showed an even better device performance (23 cd A(-1)). Furthermore, it was also shown that polymer solar cells with H-dip-coated GO/PEDOT:PSS hole-collecting bi-IFLs exhibited a remarkable improvement in power conversion efficiency (6.9%), which was also higher than that (4.8%) obtained with spin-coated bi-IFLs. These results clearly indicate that the H-dip-coating of GO(/PEDOT:PSS) can effectively modify the ITO interface to yield efficient hole-selective IFLs, representing considerable promise for use as an alternative to spin-coated IFLs in the mass production of solution-processable organic semiconducting devices.