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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 881-886Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1635991
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This article reports on the investigation of anisotropic optical properties of vacuum-deposited thin films of high-efficiency blue-emitting ter(9,9-diarylfluorene)s using variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. Under deposition conditions typical for thin-film organic devices, both real and imaginary parts of refractive indices of vacuum-deposited ter(9,9-diarylfluorene) films exhibit rather significant uniaxial anisotropy with the optical axis along the surface normal. In particular, for the absorption associated with the pi-pi(*) transition of the terfluorene backbone, they show substantially larger in-plane extinction coefficients than the out-of-plane extinction coefficients. It is thus inferred that the vacuum-deposited ter(9,9-diarylfluorene) molecules tend to align their molecular axes and pi-pi(*) transition dipole moments along the substrate surface as observed previously in spin-coated films of alkyl-substituted polyfluorenes or oligofluorenes, even though the present ter(9,9-diarylfluorene)s have rigid and bulky aryl substituents on C9, relatively shorter oligomer chains, and very different deposition conditions. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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