Selectively Modulating Triplet Exciton Formation in Host Materials for Highly Efficient Blue Electrophosphorescence

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• 作者：Huanhuan Li ; Ran Bi ; Ting Chen ; Kai Yuan ; Runfeng Chen ; Ye Tao ; Hongmei Zhang ; Chao Zheng ; Wei Huang
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 23, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：11
• 页码：7274-7282
• 全文大小：557K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

The concept of limiting the triplet exciton formation to fundamentally alleviate triplet-involved quenching effects is introduced to construct host materials for highly efficient and stable blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs). The low triplet exciton formation is realized by small triplet exciton formation fraction and rate with high binding energy and high reorganization energy of triplet exciton. Demonstrated in two analogue molecules in conventional donor–acceptor molecule structure for bipolar charge injection and transport with nearly the same frontier orbital energy levels and triplet excited energies, the new concept host material shows significantly suppressed triplet exciton formation in the host to avoid quenching effects, leading to much improved device efficiencies and stabilities. The low-voltage-driving blue PhOLED devices exhibit maximum efficiencies of 43.7 cd A^–1 for current efficiency, 32.7 lm W^–1 for power efficiency, and 20.7% for external quantum efficiency with low roll-off and remarkable relative quenching effect reduction ratio up to 41%. Our fundamental solution for preventing quenching effects of long-lived triplet excitons provides exciting opportunities for fabricating high-performance devices using the advanced host materials with intrinsically small triplet exciton formation cross section.