Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2’-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) is a PPV derivative that is particularly favourable for device fabrication due to its great solubility in most of the common organic solvents owing to its asymmetric side chains. To date, MEH-PPV is possibly one of the most celebrated and studied polymer semiconductors, recognising its applications in OPV, OFETs, polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED) and perovskite solar cells.

The first example of a polymer solar cell with a convincing understanding of the physics and chemistry involved was the bilayer heterojunction cell utilising the soluble polymer MEH-PPV and the Buckminsterfullerene C60 where a power conversion efficiency of 0.04% was obtained using monochromatic light.[1, 2]

General Information

Product Details

Chemical Structure

Device Structure(s)

Device structure	ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PPF-3,7SO10* (100 wt%):P-PPV (0.8 wt%): MEH–PPV (0.5 wt%)/Ba/Al [4]
Colour	White
Max. EQE	6.9%
Max. Current Efficiency	14.0 cd/A
Max. Power Efficiency	7.6 lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/CFx/MEH-PPV/Ca/Al, ca [5]
Colour	Orange-Red
Max. Luminance	24,000 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	5.1 cd/A

Device structure	ITO /PEDOT:PSS/PFO:0.25 wt% MEH-PPV/Cs2CO3/Al [6]
Colour	White
Max. EQE	6%
Max. Current Efficiency	11.2 cd/A
Max. Power Efficiency	16 lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/PEDOT/PVK:polyTPD (1:1 wt%) 50 nm/PFO:MEH-PPV*(95.5:0.5 wt%) 70 nm/Ca/Al [7]
Colour	White
Max. Luminance	~ 5,000 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	3.15 cd/A

Device structure	ITO/PEDOT (30 nm)/ poly-TPD(40 nm)/ DNA-CTMA*(20 nm)/ PFO:MEH-PPV (70 nm)/Cs2CO3(1 – 2 nm)/Al [8]
Colour	White
Max. Luminance	10,500 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	10 cd/A

Device structure	ITO/MEH-PPV/TPBI doped by 10 wt % Cs2CO3/Cs2CO3/Ca/Al [9]
Colour	Orange-Red
Max. EQE	2.2%
Max. Luminance	62,000 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	5.7 cd/A

*For chemical structure informations please refer to the cited references.

MSDS Documentation

MEH-PPV MSDS sheet

Pricing

Batch information

Literature and Reviews

1. Photoinduced electron-transfer from a conducting polymer to buckminsterfullerene, N. Sariciftci et al., Science, 258, 1474–1476 (1992).
2. Semiconducting polymer—buckminsterfullerene heterojunctions—diodes, photodiodes and photovoltaic cells, N. Sariciftci et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 62, 585–587 (1993).
3. High-efficiency inverted top-emitting polymer light-emitting diodes, L. Hou et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 153509 (2005); doi: 10.1063/1.2099528 .
4. High-efficiency and good color quality white light-emitting devices based on polymer blend, J. Zou et al., Org. Electronics, 10, 843–848 ((2009), doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2009.04.007.
5. High-efficiency polymer light-emitting diodes based on poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] with plasma-polymerized CHF3-modified indium tin oxide as an anode, C-C. Hsiao et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 033512 (2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2165192.
6. Achieving High-Efficiency Polymer White-Light-Emitting Devices, J. Huang et al., Adv. Mater., 18, 114–117 (2006); DOI: 10.1002/adma.20050110.
7. Enhanced performance of white polymer light-emitting diodes using polymer blends as hole-transporting layers, Q. Sun et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 153501 (2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2360248.
8. Multilayer white polymer light-emitting diodes with deoxyribonucleic acid-cetyltrimetylammonium complex as a hole-transporting/electronblocking, Q.Sun et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 251108 (2008); doi: 10.1063/1.2948864 .
9. Design of hole blocking layer with electron transport channels for high performance polymer light-emitting diode, C-C. Hsiao et al., Adv. Mater., 20, 1982–1988 (2008); DOI:10.1002/adma.200702150.

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