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Application of Thin Films of Conjugated Polymers in Novel Led’S and Liquid Crystal “Light Valves”

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Light emitting electroluminescent devices have been studied in which the conjugated light emitting polymer is separated on both sides from the device electrodes by a film of non-conducting polyaniline. The devices operate under an AC applied potential. Aluminum, copper or gold serve as the metal electrodes. Flexible, completely organic polymer dispersed liquid crystal light valves have been fabricated from transparent plastic substrates on which a conducting film of polypyrrole has been deposited. A new concept, “microcontact printing”, is being investigated for patterning the polypyrrole.

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The authors wish to thank Mr. Feng Huang for his untiring efforts in producing this manuscript. This work was supported in part by the University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Laboratory by NSF (Grant No. DMR-91-20668) and by the Office of Naval Research (AGM, AJE, ZH, PCW, YX and GMW) and by ARPA. It also benefited from the use of MRSEC Shared Facilities at Harvard University supported by the National Science Foundation (DMR-9400396).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6323, USA

    A. G. Macdiarmid, H. L. Wang, F. Huang, J. K. Avlyanov, P. C. Wang, T. M. Swager & Z. Huang

  2. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1106, USA

    A. J. Epstein, Y. Wang & D. D. Gebler

  3. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., 20375, USA

    R. Shashidhar, J. M. Calvert & R. J. Crawford

  4. Geocenters, Inc., Washington, D. C., 20375, USA

    T. G. Vargo

  5. Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    G. M. Whitesides & Y. Xia

  6. Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY, 14580, USA

    B. R. Hsieh

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Macdiarmid, A.G., Wang, H.L., Huang, F. et al. Application of Thin Films of Conjugated Polymers in Novel Led’S and Liquid Crystal “Light Valves”. MRS Online Proceedings Library 413, 3–12 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-413-3

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