Organic light-emitting diodes with trilayer PIN structures are fabricated using only thiophene/penylene co-oligomer derivatives: 5,5′-bis(4-biphenylyl)-2,2′-bithiophene (BP2T), 5″′-bis(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)[2,2′;5′,2″;5″,2″′]quaterthiophene (P4T-CF3), and 5,5′-bis-(4′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)-2,2′-bithiophene (BP2T-CN) as the P, I, and N materials, respectively. As designed from their expected frontier orbital energies, electroluminescence (EL) is obtained from the P4T-CF3 layer. When the BP2T layer is first deposited on an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) substrate, the device (Al:Li/BP2T-CN/P4T-CF3/BP2T/ITO) shows homogeneous EL. On the other hand, the device with an opposite deposition order (Au/BP2T/P4T-CF3/BP2T-CN/ITO) shows dotted EL with higher efficiency at lower bias voltages. By decreasing the deposition rate of the P4T-CF3 layer in the latter device, its morphological change results in homogeneous EL with increased density of dotted emission.
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