Plextronics, Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140284573 | CHARGE INJECTION AND TRANSPORT LAYERS - Compositions for use in hole transporting layers (HTLs) or hole injection layers (HILs) are provided, as well as methods of making the compositions and devices fabricated from the compositions. OLED devices can be made. The compositions comprise at least one conductive conjugated polymer, at least one semiconducting matrix component that is different from the conductive conjugated polymer, and an optional dopant, and are substantially free of an insulating matrix component. | 09-25-2014 |
20140251434 | ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES COMPRISING FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF - Photovoltaic cells comprising an active layer comprising, as p-type material, conjugated polymers such as polythiophene and regioregular polythiophene, and as n-type material at least one fullerene derivative. The fullerene derivative can be C60, C70, or C84. The fullerene also can be functionalized with indene groups. Improved efficiency can be achieved. | 09-11-2014 |
20140217334 | DOPING CONJUGATED POLYMERS AND DEVICES - Compositions comprising at least one hole transport material, such as a conjugated polymer, and at least one dopant, providing improved thermal stability. Compositions can be applied to substrates and used in HIL and HTL layers and organic electronic devices such as light emitting devices such as OLEDs or OPVs. The conjugated polymer can be a polythiophene, including a 3,4-substituted polythiophene or a regioregular polythiophene. The dopant can be a silver salt such as silver tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate. Improved methods of making dopant are provided. | 08-07-2014 |
20140054509 | SULFONATION OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS AND OLED, PHOTOVOLTAIC, AND ESD DEVICES - Conducting polymer systems for hole injection or transport layer applications including a composition comprising: a water soluble or water dispersible regioregular polythiophene comprising (i) at least one organic substituent, and (ii) at least one sulfonate substituent comprising sulfonate sulfur bonding directly to the polythiophene backbone. The polythiophene can be water soluble, water dispersible, or water swellable. They can be self-doped. The organic substituent can be an alkoxy substituent, or an alkyl substituent. OLED, PLED, SMOLED, PV, and ESD applications can be used. | 02-27-2014 |
20140050978 | ADDITIVE FOR POSITIVE ELECTRODES OF LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND POSITIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES - Provided are an additive for positive electrodes, which is capable of increasing the output of a lithium secondary battery and is capable of maintaining cycle characteristics even during high-speed charge and discharge; and a positive electrode for lithium secondary batteries. The additive for positive electrodes of lithium secondary batteries, which contains, as an essential constituent, a substituted polythiophene that has a repeating unit, which is obtained by substituting a hydrogen atom in the 3-position and/or in the 4-position of a thiophene ring with at least one group that is selected from the group consisting of a perfloroalkylalkoxy group, a perfloroalkoxy group, a perfloroalkoxyalkyl group and an alkyl group substituted with the perfloroalkylalkoxy group, as at least a part of a thiophene repeating group. | 02-20-2014 |
20140014881 | CONDUCTIVE POLYMER FOR SOLID ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR - [Problem] To provide a conductive polymer for solid electrolyte capacitor having outstanding solubility in solvents or dispersibility in solvents and which can produce a capacitor having outstanding capacitor characteristics in high-temperature environments. | 01-16-2014 |
20130344648 | HOLE TRANSPORT COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS (II) - A composition comprising: at least one compound comprising a hole transporting core, wherein the core is covalently bonded to a first arylamine group and also covalently bonded to a second arylamine group different from the first, and wherein the compound is covalently bonded to at least one intractability group, wherein the intractability group is covalently bonded to the hole transporting core, the first arylamine group, the second arylamine group, or a combination thereof, and wherein the compound has a molecular weight of about 5,000 g/mole or less. Blended mixtures of arylamine compounds, including fluorene core compounds, can provide good film formation and stability when coated onto hole injection layers. Solution processing of OLEDs is a particularly important application. | 12-26-2013 |
20130334504 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LIGHTING DEVICES - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) device includes a substrate, an anode, a cathode, an active region including an organic material, wherein the active region is electrically coupled to the anode and the cathode, at least one coupler configured to electrically couple at least one of the anode or the cathode to a power supply, and an encapsulation that isolates the active region from an ambient environment. A lighting system can be made including a plurality of OLED devices. A lighting system can be assembled using the OLED devices from a kit. The OLED devices may be polymer light emitting diode (PLED) devices or small molecule light emitting diode (SMOLED) devices. The OLED devices can use regio-regular poly-thiophene. | 12-19-2013 |
20130324716 | HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS INCLUDING OLED APPLICATIONS - The composition described here comprises at least one hole-transporting compound, wherein the hole-transporting compound comprises a core covalently bonded to at least two arylamine groups, wherein the arylamine group optionally comprises one or more intractability groups. The composition can provide good film formation and stability when coated onto hole injection layers. Solution processing of hole transporting layers of OLEDs can be achieved with the composition described here. Good mobility can be achieved. | 12-05-2013 |
20130320313 | ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS - Organic electronic devices, compositions, and methods are disclosed that employ electrically conductive nanowires and conducting materials such as conjugated polymers such as sulfonated regioregular polythiophenes which provide high device performance such as good solar cell efficiency. Devices requiring transparent conductors that are resilient to physical stresses can be fabricated, with reduced corrosion problems. | 12-05-2013 |
20130214257 | CHARGE INJECTION AND TRANSPORT LAYERS - Compositions for use in hole transporting layers (HTLs) or hole injection layers (HILs) are provided, as well as methods of making the compositions and devices fabricated from the compositions. OLED devices can be made. The compositions comprise at least one conductive conjugated polymer, at least one semiconducting matrix component that is different from the conductive conjugated polymer, and an optional dopant, and are substantially free of an insulating matrix component. | 08-22-2013 |
20130189805 | ENCAPSULATION FOR ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES - An organic optoelectronic device includes a substrate, an anode, a cathode, an active region comprising an organic material, an encapsulation that isolates the active region from an ambient environment, wherein the encapsulation comprises a housing, and a first hermetically sealed electrical path through the housing. | 07-25-2013 |
20130109813 | SYNTHESIS OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS VIA OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS | 05-02-2013 |
20130092887 | Doping methods for hole injection and transport layers - A method including combining at least one first compound in a neutral form with at least one ionic dopant in a first solvent system to provide a first doped reaction product, isolating the first doped reaction product in solid form, and combining the isolated first doped reaction product with at least one conjugated polymer in neutral form in a second solvent system to form a second doped reaction product including an oxidized form of the conjugated polymer a neutral form of the first compound. Advantages include better stability, ease of use, and lower metal content. Applications include organic electronic devices including OLEDs. | 04-18-2013 |
20130076263 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LIGHTING SYSTEMS - A lighting system includes a plurality of organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices. By selecting the plurality of OLED devices, or by selectively controlling the plurality of OLED devices, the color characteristics of the lighting system can be tuned. The lifetime of the lighting system can be improved. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075670 | AMINOBENZENE COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS - Oligomers and/or polymers comprising a backbone comprising arylamine and fluorinated alkyleneoxy moieties which may be crosslinked. Ink formulations and devices can be formed from the oligomers or polymers, or corresponding monomers. Doped compositions can be formed. Charge injection and transport layers can be formed. Improved stability can be achieved in organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and OPVs. | 03-28-2013 |
20130023621 | COPOLYMERS OF 3,4-DIALKOXYTHIOPHENES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND DEVICES - Copolymers of 3,4-dialkoxythiophenes are disclosed that are useful as electronics materials. Also disclosed are methods of making these copolymers, as well as compositions and devices incorporating them. Use of these materials in hole injection or hole transport layers is disclosed. Materials comprising these copolymers can be designed to provide solubility in some solvents and intractability in others, which is useful for the construction of multilayer materials for use in electronic devices. | 01-24-2013 |
20130009137 | VERTICALLY PHASE-SEPARATING SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC MATERIAL LAYERS - Improved OLED devices and methods of making the same using vertical phase separation to simplify processing. Vertically phase separated material can include at least one lower first layer disposed on the electrode, and at least one upper second layer different from the first layer and disposed away from the electrode or optionally on one layer comprising at least one semiconducting organic material. The first layer can be enriched with at least one first semiconducting organic material (SOM 1) and the second layer can be enriched with at least one second semiconducting organic material (SOM 2) different from the SOM 1. The ink composition can be adapted so that the film vertically phase separates into the first and second layers. Compositions and devices are also embodied herein. | 01-10-2013 |
20120320574 | Organic Light Emitting Diode Products - A plurality of organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices can be spatially distributed to form various lighting systems and luminaires. The lighting systems can be configured to readily replace conventional light bulbs or tubular fluorescent lamps. A networked lighting system including a plurality of OLED devices can have a variable light field based on a feedback. | 12-20-2012 |
20120318359 | ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES COMPRISING FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF - Photovoltaic cells comprising an active layer comprising, as p-type material, conjugated polymers such as polythiophene and regioregular polythiophene, and as n-type material at least one fullerene derivative. The fullerene derivative can be C60, C70, or C84. The fullerene also can be functionalized with indene groups. Improved efficiency can be achieved. | 12-20-2012 |
20100179469 | Organic Light Emitting Diode Phototherapy Lighting System - A lighting system includes a plurality of organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices. By selecting the plurality of OLED devices, or by selectively controlling the plurality of OLED devices, the color characteristics of the lighting system can be tuned. The lifespan of the lighting system can be improved. | 07-15-2010 |
20100132782 | ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES COMPRISING FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF - Photovoltaic cells comprising an active layer comprising, as p-type material, conjugated polymers such as polythiophene and regioregular polythiophene, and as n-type material at least one fullerene derivative. The fullerene derivative can be C60, C70, or C84. The fullerene also can be functionalized with indene groups. Improved efficiency can be achieved. | 06-03-2010 |
20090023842 | PORPHYRIN AND CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS FOR USE IN SOLID-STATE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Compositions comprising porphyrinic macrocycles and conjugated polymers such as polythiophene for use in organic electronic devices including solar cells are presented. Covalent linkage of a porphyrinic macrocycle to a polymer allows tuning of electronic and spectroscopic properties of conjugated polymers and can improve the heat stability of the system relative to a blended comparison. A composition comprising: at least one polymer comprising at least one porphyrinic macrocycle covalently linked to at least one conjugated polymer, wherein the porphyrinic macrocycle is metal-free is also presented. Inks can be formulated. Methods of making are provided. | 01-22-2009 |
20080319207 | ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES COMPRISING FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF - Photovoltaic cells comprising an active layer comprising, as p-type material, conjugated polymers such as polythiophene and regioregular polythiophene, and as n-type material at least one fullerene derivative. The fullerene derivative can be C60, C70, or C84. The fullerene also can be functionalized with indene groups. Improved efficiency can be achieved. | 12-25-2008 |