This application discloses a white-light hyperbranched conjugated polymer, a method for preparing the same and its use. The polymer uses a red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex as a core and polyfluorene derivative blue fluorescent materials as a framework which either contains or does not contain carbazole derivatives, and the white light hyperbranched polymers realize white-light emission by adjusting the content of the red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex connected using the complementation of blue and red color. The electroluminescent spectrum of the conjugated polymer in the present application covers the whole visible light emission area and is close to the pure white light emission, by which the conjugated polymer could be used as a material used in light-emitting layer to prepare the organic electroluminescent devices.

The present invention relates to organic copolymers and organic semiconducting compositions comprising these materials, including layers and devices comprising such organic semiconductor compositions. The invention is also concerned with methods of preparing such organic semiconductor compositions and layers and uses thereof. The invention has application in the field of printed electronics and is particularly useful as the semiconducting material for use in formulations for organic thin film-transistor (OFET) backplanes for displays, integrated circuits, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photodetectors, organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, sensors, memory elements and logic circuits.

There is provided p-type organic polymers of general formula I. The polymers may be useful as semi-conducting material. Thus, thin films and devices comprising such polymers are also provided.

An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a light-emitting layer (107) between the anode and the cathode; a first hole-transporting layer (105A) comprising a first conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the light-emitting layer; and a second hole-transporting layer (105B) comprising a second conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the first hole-transporting layer and the light-emitting layer, wherein a lowest excited state energy level of the first hole-transporting polymer is lower than the lowest excited state energy of the second hole-transporting polymer.

An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a first light-emitting layer (107) comprising a first light-emitting material between the anode and the cathode; and a hole-transporting layer (105) comprising a hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the first light-emitting layer and adjacent to the first light-emitting layer, wherein a HOMO level of the first light-emitting material is closer to vacuum than a HOMO level of the hole-transporting polymer and wherein more than 50 mol % of the repeat units of the hole-transporting polymer are hole-transporting repeat units.

A solid state light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode coupled to a first charge injecting layer; a second electrode coupled to a second charge injecting layer; an emissive layer comprising a perovskite material, wherein the emissive layer is provided between the first and second charge injecting layers; and wherein the bandgaps of the first and second charge injecting layers are larger than the bandgap of the emissive perovskite layer.

A semiconducting composition comprising a semiconducting polymer and a semiconducting non-polymeric polycyclic compound, wherein the semiconducting polymer comprises units of A and/or B: ##STR00001##
wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, x, y, p, q, r, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 have any of the meanings defined in the description.

A polymer compound is provided having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein: R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, a mono-valent aromatic heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group, and Ar.sup.1 represents an arylene group or a di-valent condensed polycyclic aromatic heterocyclic group.

Metallopolymers of formula (I) where R.sup.1 and R.sup.1′; and R.sup.2 and R.sup.2′ are independently of each other, a C.sub.2-C.sub.10 alkyl group; X is CR3R3′ or NR4; R.sup.3 and R.sup.3′ are, independently of each other, as is R.sup.4, a C.sub.2-C.sub.10 alkyl group; L is a C.sub.4-C.sub.10 alkylene group; Ln.sup.1 and Ln.sup.2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the lanthanide cations; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the α-diketonate ligands; T is a neutral bidentate Lewis base including two coordinating nitrogen atoms; .fwdarw. represents a coordination of group T via the two nitrogen atoms of T to Ln.sup.1 and Ln.sup.2 respectively; Ln.sup.1 and Ln.sup.2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the lanthanide cations; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the β-diketonate, picolinate or dipicolinate monoanionic ligands; 0.01<x<0.50; 0<y<0.49, with x+y=0.50.

The invention relates to new conjugated semiconducting polymers containing thermally cleavable side groups. The thermally cleavable side groups are selected from among carbonate groups and carbamate groups, By thermally cleaving side groups, the solubility or the polymers can he reduced in a targeted manner. The polymers are used as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPDs), organic light emitling diodes (OLEDs), and organic field effect transistors (OFETs).