Screen-printed passive matrix displays based on light-emitting polymers

Due to their outstanding properties, e.g., good contrast, wide viewing angl e, low power consumption, and self-emission organic light-emitting (OLE) di splays on the basis of conjugated polymers are on the verge of commercializ ation. Two major disadvantages of the current processing technique for the polymers-spin coating-are the material waste and the difficulties involved in patterning multichrome or even full-color displays. Therefore, we invest igated the screen-printing technique for the production of OLE displays. In this letter, we present performance data and images of screen-printed OLE diodes. They are already comparable to spin-coated ones. We observed lumina nce of 10 000 cd/m(2) at 8 V and peak efficiencies exceeding 10 cd/A for gr een diodes. These data indicate that printed organic displays have the pote ntial to replace "classical" spin-coated devices. (C) 2001 American Institu te of Physics.