A variety of dielectric materials may also be used in embodiments, such as for example, ionic gels formed of dielectric polymers and ionic liquids, such as, for example, polystyrene-co-poly(methyl methacrylate)-co-polystyrene (PS-PMMA-PS)/1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium (trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMIM TFSI), BaTiO3/PMMA∥PEDOT/PSS, n-octadecylphosphonic acid SAM∥PEDOT/PSS, and CYTOP, and other printable or thermal vapor deposited dielectric materials such as dielectric polymers including PMMA, Teflon, CYTOP, Nafion and the like; oxides including, SiO2, Al2O3, ZrO2, HfO2, TiO2, and the like; inorganic salts including, LiF, CsF, SrTiO3, BaTiO3 and the like; and nitrides including Si3N4, etc.
A variety of additional layers might also be included in embodiments of the devices. For example, electron injection and transportation layers incorporating dipole molecules for PLEDs may also be included. Such thin layers of such dipole molecules function by correcting the orientation of the dipole leading to an increase in the effective work function and the improvement of electron injection in PLED devices. In particular, it has been found that a spin-coated thin layer with 0.1% weight 1-(3-hexadecylimidazolyl)-tris(1-imidazolyl)borate (C16-Blm4) in methanol solution improved the performance of PLEDs. (See, e.g., H. P. Li, et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, pp. 8903-8912, 2009; and H. P. Li, et al., U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/592,761, 2009, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.)