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Visible and ultraviolet Light emitting electrochemical cells realised on woven textiles

Visible and ultraviolet Light emitting electrochemical cells realised on woven textiles
Visible and ultraviolet Light emitting electrochemical cells realised on woven textiles
Spray coated organic light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) have been fabricated on a standard woven polyester cotton textile for wearable display applications. The textile is first pre-smoothed by screen printing an ultra-violet (UV) curable polyurethane layer, termed an interface layer, before fully spray coating the functional device. The spray coating technique was then used to fabricate the flexible OLECs on the textile. The textile devices were then encapsulated prior to testing in an ambient environment. Commercially available yellow emitting polymer and a UV emitting small molecules have been utilised as LEC active layers. Fully functional yellow coloured OLECs have been achieved on the woven textile substrate. Preliminary results with the UV emission molecule have demonstrated its solubility for solution processing and shown UV emission via photoluminescence induced by laser excitation, offering the potential to migrate to textile to realise UV OLECs.
light emitting textile, e-textiles, light emitting electrochemical cells (LEC), light emission
2504-3900
Arumugam, Sasikumar
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Pearce, James Edward
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Charlton, Martin
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Tudor, John
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Harrowven, David C.
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Beeby, Stephen
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Arumugam, Sasikumar
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Pearce, James Edward
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Charlton, Martin
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Tudor, John
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Harrowven, David C.
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Beeby, Stephen
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Arumugam, Sasikumar, Pearce, James Edward, Charlton, Martin, Tudor, John, Harrowven, David C. and Beeby, Stephen (2021) Visible and ultraviolet Light emitting electrochemical cells realised on woven textiles. Proceedings, 68 (1) (9). (doi:10.3390/proceedings2021068009).

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Abstract

Spray coated organic light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) have been fabricated on a standard woven polyester cotton textile for wearable display applications. The textile is first pre-smoothed by screen printing an ultra-violet (UV) curable polyurethane layer, termed an interface layer, before fully spray coating the functional device. The spray coating technique was then used to fabricate the flexible OLECs on the textile. The textile devices were then encapsulated prior to testing in an ambient environment. Commercially available yellow emitting polymer and a UV emitting small molecules have been utilised as LEC active layers. Fully functional yellow coloured OLECs have been achieved on the woven textile substrate. Preliminary results with the UV emission molecule have demonstrated its solubility for solution processing and shown UV emission via photoluminescence induced by laser excitation, offering the potential to migrate to textile to realise UV OLECs.

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Published date: 13 January 2021
Keywords: light emitting textile, e-textiles, light emitting electrochemical cells (LEC), light emission

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Local EPrints ID: 446628
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446628
ISSN: 2504-3900
PURE UUID: 198d2682-4df3-41d1-9c98-474dc6904e7e
ORCID for Sasikumar Arumugam: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7783-1799
ORCID for James Edward Pearce: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8401-2417
ORCID for John Tudor: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1179-9455
ORCID for David C. Harrowven: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6730-3573
ORCID for Stephen Beeby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-1759

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Date deposited: 16 Feb 2021 17:33
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:40

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Author: Sasikumar Arumugam ORCID iD
Author: James Edward Pearce ORCID iD
Author: Martin Charlton
Author: John Tudor ORCID iD
Author: Stephen Beeby ORCID iD

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