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Abstract: The effect of salmon DNA–CTMA as an electron blocking layer (EBL) has been examined on the performance of MEH–PPV and PFO-based light emitting diodes. Though the turn-on voltage increases with incorporation of EBL, a significant increase in luminance and luminous efficiency for both the devices is observed. The EBL improves the device performance by blocking electrons at the EBL–polymer interface, thereby increasing the recombination probability of electrons and holes. The luminance of the MEH–PPV based Bio-LED increases to 100cd/m2 from 30cd/m2 while a corresponding increase for the PFO based LED is to 160cd/m2 from 80cd/m2 with and without EBL, respectively. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: It has been found that insertion of a thin Ba buffer layer between the Al electrode and the MEH-PPV layer results in a significantly higher current density in ITO/MEH-PPV/Al polymer light-emitting diodes due to a reduction of the potential barrier at the cathode–polymer interface. The photoluminescence is found to increase with the addition of porphyrin-containing platinum as the central atom, showing that some of the triplet excitons decay radiatively as a result of mixing porphyrin. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]