Modulation of n-Type Units in Bipolar Host Materials toward High-Performance Phosphorescent OLEDs.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.

Published: November 2017

9'-Pyridinyl-9'H-9,3':6',9″-tercarbazole (PyCz) is a bipolar host material in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs). A second n-type unit, either pyridine or diphenylphosphine dioxide (DPPO), is introduced onto the pyridine ring of PyCz at para- or metasite to design and prepare four novel "dual n-type unit bipolar host" materials m-BPyCz, p-BPyCz, m-POPyCz, and p-POPyCz. The incorporation of the second n-type unit pulls down the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals and facilitates electron injection and transportation, resulting in better charge-balancing ability. As a result, these dual n-type unit bipolar hosts exhibit higher efficiencies and slower efficiency roll-off in their blue and green PhOLEDs. In particular, m-POPyCz containing a bulky DPPO as the second n-type unit with a metalinking possesses the best charge-balancing state and generates a maximum external quantum efficiency (η) of 27.0% (corresponding to a current efficiency of 51.9 cd A and a power efficiency of 46.5 lm W) in its sky-blue device and still remained at a high η of 23.6% even at the practical brightness of 1000 cd m. These results clearly demonstrate that the "dual n-type unit bipolar hosts" with an optimized substitution position and steric effect is a new and effective type of host materials for high-performance OLEDs.

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