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In recent years, light-emitting diodes have substituted the incandescent into a new industry, because of its high energy conversion efficiency and low power consumption.In which the polymer light-emitting diodes have caused high concern due to its advantages which are large-area manufacturing process, thin, light weight, low cost, easy fabrication, low driving voltage, and easily packaged in flexible-type substrate.The simplest PLED has a thin polymer film fabricated by spin coating method sandwiched between the anode(indium tin oxide) and the cathode(Al).To cut down the driving voltage and to increase the working life for the PLED, we added the PEDOT:PSS as hole transport layer(HTL) between emitting material layer(EML) and the cathode by spin-coating, and added the PEDOT, Polyaniline as HTL by admicellar polymerization(AP).The PLEDs were analyzed to acquire the optimum parameters by Taguchi methods.MEH-PPV was analyzed by FTIR to confirm of molecular structures, and by TGA and DSC to test its heat stability.The PLEDs were tested for driving voltage and working life with an UV-Vis spectrometer and a multimeter.The FTIR results show that the synthesized MEH-PPV in this work have the same H peaks and functional groups such as C-Br disappear and CH- stretching vinyl as those found in the literature.The TGA and DSC results show that the synthesized MEH-PPV decomposes between 385 and 260°C which range is close to the published data.Regarding the fabricated PLEDs, it is found the ones with hole transport layer perform much better than that without.It is also found that the PLEDs fabricated by optimum parameters have the lowest driving voltage of 6 V, and thte longest working life 10 h.
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