Carbazole-based polymers as hosts for solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes: Simplicity, efficacy

Polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs) have attracted a great deal of interest within academia and industry because of their potential applications in flat panel displays and solid-state lighting technologies. The solution processability of polymers offers the advantages of simple and mild fabrication conditions enabling to cut cost and produce large area displays. Among all polymeric hosts under investigation, carbazole-based materials benefit from the wide bandgap of carbazole as well as its remarkable thermal, photochemical and chemical stability. Especially, the relatively high triplet energy level of carbazole makes it an appealing candidate to design hosts for wide bandgap triplet emitters such as blue dopants. In this review, an overview of all carbazole-based polymeric hosts reported to date is presented. Noticeably, easiness of synthesis has been an aspect largely developed to access to these polymeric structures.

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