LIGHT EMITTING POLYMERS

A Seminar Report submitted to

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, Anantapuramu.

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for

the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

IN

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Submitted by

A.GIRI 174C1A0405

Under the esteemed guidance of

Mrs.K.YOGITHA BALI, M.Tech

Assistant Professor
Department of ECE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SREE RAMA ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(Affiliated to JNTUA, Anantapur and approved by AICTE, New Delhi)

Rami Reddy Nagar, Karakambadi Road, Tirupati-517507, A.P

2017 – 2021

Certificate

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 This is to certify that a seminar entitled

Light Emitting Polymers

Is the bonifide work done by

A.GIRI 174C1A0405

In the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,

SREE RAMA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Tirupati and is submitted to Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University Anantapur, Anantapur in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the award of the degree of Electronics and Communication Engineering.

This work has been carried out under the guidance of

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT GUIDE

Mr. A.M.GUNA SEKHAR, M.E, M.I.S.T.E., Mrs.K.YOGITHA BALI, M.Tech

Associate Professor & HOD, Assistant Professor

Department of ECE, Department of ECE,

Sree Rama Engineering College Sree Rama Engineering College

Tirupati. Tirupati.

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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 I consider it is my privilege to express my gratitude and respect to all those who guide,
inspired and helped me in completion of my Seminar Report.

I am thankful to our chairman Mr. MANNEM RAMI REDDY Garu, Director

Mr. M.ARAVIND REDDY Garu and Principal Dr .K. JAYA CHANDRA for permitting us
to use facilities available in this college to accomplish the Seminar Report Completely.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to Mr.A.M.GUNA SEKHAR, Head of the

Department of ECE for his kind help that he extended at every stage of my work and for all
provisions made us to complete this endeavor successfully.

I am thankful to my guide Mrs.K.YOGITHA BALI, M.Tech, Assistant Professor, for

all of her guidance and co-operation for Seminar Report.

I am also thankful to all my staff members of Electronics and Communication

Engineering for their co-operation.

Last but not least, I wish to thank all my friends, who helped directly or indirectly in
their completion of our project.

DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this seminar titled “LIGHT EMITTING
POLYMERS” is a genuine seminar carried out by me, in B.TECH (Electronics &
Communication Engineering) degree course of Jawaharlal Nehru Technology

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 University Anantapur, Anantapuram, and has not been submitted to any other
course or university for the award of any degree or diploma.

Signature of the student

A.GIRI

ABSTRACT

The seminar is about polymers that can emit light when a voltage is applied to it.
The structure comprises of a thin film of semiconducting polymer sandwiched
between two electrodes (cathode and anode).When electrons and holes are
injected from the electrodes, the recombination of these charge carriers takes
place, which leads to emission of light .The band gap, i.e. The energy difference

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 between valence band and conduction band determines the wavelength (colour)
of the emitted light. They are usually made by ink jet printing process. In this
method red green and blue polymer solutions are jetted into well defined areas
on the substrate. This is because, PLEDs are soluble in common organic solvents
like toluene and xylene .The film thickness uniformity is obtained by multi-
passing (slow) is by heads with drive per nozzle technology .The pixels are
controlled by using active or passive matrix. The advantages include low cost,
small size, no viewing angle restrictions, low power requirement,
biodegradability etc. They are poised to replace LCDs used in laptops and CRTs
used in desktop computers today. Their future applications include flexible
displays which can be folded, wearable displays with interactive features,
camouflage etc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Introduction 1

2. History 1
3. Subject detailing 6
4. Construction of LEPs 7

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 4.1 Inkjet printing 8
4.2 Active & Passive matrix 8
5. Basic principle & technology 9
6. Basic Structure and working 10
6.1 Comparision table 11
7. Manufacturing 12
8. Advantages 12
9. Disadvantages 13
10. Limitations 14
11. Applications 16
12. Future developments 18
13. Conclusion 19
14. References 20

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