Episode 3: Copper-iodide hybrid material enables deep blue LEDs

About this episode

This episode features an interview about a new copper-iodide hybrid material that enables the production of deep blue LEDs.

In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Jing Li at Rutgers University and Kun Zhu at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics about the material and a solution-based manufacturing process they introduced to produce deep blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs emit light at 460 nm. The LED consists of several layers, beginning with an indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate that serves as an electrode. Above the ITO is a single molecular layer of the polymer, poly...

People in this episode

Host: Sophia Chen

Guests: Jing Li, Kun Zhu

Topics covered

• copper-iodide hybrid material
• deep blue LEDs
• solution-based manufacturing
• light-emitting diodes
• material science

Keywords

• copper-iodide
• hybrid material
• LEDs
• 460 nm
• solution-based manufacturing
• indium tin oxide
• polymer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rutgers University, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

Products: deep blue LEDs, indium tin oxide (ITO), polymer

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