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Magnetoelectroluminescence

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Electroluminescence is an important and much studied property of semiconducting films of conjugated organic polymers [1,2,3,4], and is the basis of their commercial application in organic light emitting diodes (oLEDs) [5,6,7,8]. These have the potential to be more efficient, more easily scalable, and more flexible than their inorganic counterparts [7, 9, 10]. oLEDs are constructed in four layers: a thin film of the semiconducting polymer is sandwiched between an electron-injecting metal cathode and a transparent hole-injecting layer, which is then covered by a transparent anode. Calcium and aluminium are commonly used for the cathode and indium tin oxide for the anode, with poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT-PSS) a typical hole-injecting layer [11,12,13,14,15]. In this chapter, we are concerned with the properties of the semiconducting polymer layer which affect the efficiency of electroluminescence.

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    Parts of this chapter have been reproduced with permission from Lawrence, J. E., Lewis, A. M., Manolopoulos, D. E. & Hore, P. J. Journal of Chemical Physics 144, 214109 (2016), https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4953093

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Lewis, A. (2018). Magnetoelectroluminescence. In: Spin Dynamics in Radical Pairs. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00686-0_6

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