Phenylcarbazole-dipyridyl triazole hybrid as bipolar host material for phosphorescent OLEDs
作者:Wen-Yi Hung、Guan-Min Tu、Shou-Wei Chen、Yun Chi
DOI:10.1039/c2jm15963e
日期:——
Two bipolar host materials p-cbtz and m-cbtz, with both phenylcarbazole and 3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole moieties, were synthesized and tested for fabrication of various phosphorescent OLEDs. The sp3-hybridized nitrogen atom of the 1,2,4-triazole fragment disrupted the π-conjugation between the electron donating 9-phenylcarbazole and the electron accepting 3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole and, thus, exhibited promising properties such as bipolar charge transport feature (10−5–10−6 cm2V−1s−1) and with relatively high triplet energy gaps (ET = 2.82–2.75 eV). As a result, they were utilized as universal hosts for various phosphorescent OLEDs, showing high efficiencies and low efficiency roll-off. For example, the devices hosted by m-cbtz achieve maximum external quantum efficiencies (ηext) of 8.8% for blue, 16.7% for green, 17.5% for yellow and 16.7% for red-emitting OLEDs. In addition, we also fabricated dual-emitter WOLEDs with a co-doped single emissive layer, exhibiting satisfactory device efficiencies (12.4%, 25 cd A−1, 17 lm W−1) and with highly stable chromaticity (CIEx = 0.26–0.27 and CIEy = 0.38) at an applied voltage of 8 to 11 V. These results demonstrated that the newly synthesized, phenylcarbazole-dipyridyl triazole host materials are advantageous for fabrication of various highly efficient phosphorescent OLEDs.
合成并测试了同时具有苯基咔唑和 3,5-双(2-吡啶基)-1,2,4-三唑分子的两种双极主材料 p-cbtz 和 m-cbtz,用于制造各种磷光 OLED。1,2,4-三唑片段的sp3杂化氮原子破坏了电子捐赠的9-苯基咔唑和电子接受的3,5-双(2-吡啶基)-1,2,4-三唑之间的π-共轭,因此表现出良好的特性,如双极电荷传输特性(10-5-10-6 cm2V-1s-1)和相对较高的三重能隙(ET = 2.82-2.75 eV)。因此,它们被用作各种磷光 OLED 的通用宿主,显示出较高的效率和较低的效率衰减。例如,m-cbtz 承载的器件在蓝色、绿色、黄色和红色发光 OLED 中的最大外部量子效率(ηext)分别为 8.8%、16.7%、17.5% 和 16.7%。此外,我们还制备了具有共掺杂单发射层的双发射极 WOLED,其器件效率令人满意(12.4%,25 cd A-1,17 lm W-1),并且在 8 至 11 V 的外加电压下具有高度稳定的色度(CIEx = 0.26-0.27 和 CIEy = 0.38)。