Phosphine Sulfide-Based Bipolar Host Materials for Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Three phosphine sulfide-based bipolar host materials, viz CzPhPS, DCzPhPS, and TCzPhPS, were facilely prepared through a one-pot synthesis in excellent yields. The developed hosts exhibit superior thermal stabilities with the decomposition temperatures (T_d) all exceeding 350 °C and the melting temperatures (T_m) over 200 °C. In addition, their triplet energy (E_T) levels are estimated to be higher than 3.0 eV, illustrating that they are applicable to serve as hosts for blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs). The maxima luminance, current efficiency (CE), power efficiency (PE), and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 17,223 cd m⁻², 36.7 cd A⁻¹, 37.5 lm W⁻¹, and 17.5% are achieved for the blue PhOLEDs hosted by CzPhPS. The PhOLEDs based on DCzPhPS and TCzPhPS show inferior device performance than that of CzPhPS, which might be ascribed to the deteriorated charge transporting balance as the increased number of the constructed carbazole units in DCzPhPS and TCzPhPS molecules would enhance the hole-transporting ability of the devices to a large extent. Our study demonstrates that the bipolar hosts derived from phosphine sulfide have enormous potential applications in blue PhOLEDs, and the quantity of donors should be well controlled to exploit highly efficient phosphine sulfide-based hosts.     

芳基硅磷光主体材料在有机电致发光器件中的应用

有机电致发光器件(organic light emitting diodes, OLEDs)在固态照明和平板显示等领域显现出巨大的商业应用前景,近年来受到人们的广泛关注。由于芳基硅基团的易修饰性和多功能性,可以通过连接结构不同的功能单元构建性能优异的主体材料,以此来实现高效的有机电致发光器件,因此近年来芳基硅基团在合成高性能电致发光主体材料方面获得了广泛的研究和关注。本文从材料的设计分类出发,综述了芳基硅主体材料的研究现状,对其分子结构特征、热力学性质、光物理性能、电化学性质及电致发光器件性能等做了详细的归纳总结,讨论了芳基硅主体材料在有机电致发光器件方面存在的不足,并展望了其应用前景和发展方向。     

2,3-Disubstituted Fluorene Scaffold for Efficient Green Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Fluorene is a classic three-membered polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and it has been widely used in optoelectronic devices. Here we explore a simple and efficient strategy for the derivatization at the 2- and 3- positions in fluorene unit. By introducing different types of substituents, we design two pairs of 2,3-disubstituted fluorene isomers and use them as host materials for phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs). The green PHOLEDs hosted by these fluorene derivatives realize high external quantum efficiencies (EQE) over 20 % with low efficiency roll-off. Particularly, the devices hosted by 2TRz3TPA and 2TPA3TRz achieve nearly 24 % EQE and 104 lm W⁻¹ power efficiency. These results clearly demonstrate that the 2,3-disubstituted fluorene platforms are potentially useful for constructing host materials.     

蓝色磷光有机发光材料

有机发光二极管在信息显示和固体照明领域具有广阔的应用前景,二十多年来得到了广泛关注,取得了很大进展。但显示和照明必需的蓝色发光材料,特别是蓝色磷光材料是目前有机发光材料研究领域的瓶颈,其稳定性和效率亟待提高。本文总结了近年来蓝色磷光有机发光材料的研究进展,系统介绍了蓝色磷光染料和主体材料这两大类材料的分子设计思想和发展动态,以及它们在有机发光二极管中的应用,并对蓝色磷光有机发光材料未来的研究方向进行了展望。     

一种苯并咪唑类双极性蓝色磷光主体材料的合成及性能

设计合成了一种基于苯并咪唑的新型双极性蓝色磷光主体材料1-苯基-2-[4-(N-咔唑基)苯基]苯并咪唑(PCPB),并对其结构进行了表征。通过紫外-可见、荧光、低温磷光光谱以及循环伏安法、热重分析、差热分析和密度泛函理论对其性能及结构进行了研究。结果表明,PCPB在CH2Cl2稀溶液中的吸收峰位于296和368 nm,发射峰位于401nm,属于深蓝色荧光;PCPB的低温(77K)磷光光谱的第一吸收峰位于452nm,其三线态能级为2.74e V,与蓝色磷光材料FIrpic(2.62e V)的能级相匹配;PCPB的HOMO主要分布在苯基咔唑单元,而LUMO主要定域在苯并咪唑环上。其HOMO能级为-5.54e V,与阳极ITO的功函(-4.5~-5.0 e V)相匹配,LUMO能级为-2.68e V,接近于电子传输材料PBD(-2.82e V)。PCPB表现出双极传导性能,且热稳定性良好。     

三嗪类双极性蓝色磷光主体材料的合成及性能

设计合成了一种基于三嗪类的新型双极性蓝色磷光主体材料[4-(4,6-二-α-萘氧基-1,3,5-三嗪-2-基)苯基]9-咔唑(NOTPC),并对其结构进行了表征。通过紫外-可见(UV-Vis)吸收、荧光、低温磷光、循环伏安法、热重分析(TGA)、差热分析(DSC)和密度泛函理论(DFT)对其性能及结构进行了研究。结果表明,NOTPC在CH₂Cl₂稀溶液中的吸收峰位于341和374 nm;发射峰位于478 nm;NOTPC的低温(77 K)磷光光谱的第一发射峰位于442 nm,其三线态能级为2.80 eV,与蓝色磷光材料FIrpic(2.62 eV)的能级相匹配;NOTPC的HOMO主要分布在苯基咔唑单元,而LUMO主要定域在三嗪环上。其HOMO能级为-5.40 eV,与阳极ITO的功函(-4.5~-5.0 eV)相匹配,LUMO能级为-2.32 eV,接近于电子传输材料PBD(-2.82 eV),NOTPC表现出双极传导性能, 且热稳定性良好。     

含硼有机发光二极管材料与器件

硼元素因其独特的价层电子结构——价电子数少于价轨道数,而拥有一个空的p轨道,其三配位化合物既可以和邻近的π体系产生有效共轭,又可以容易地与路易斯碱发生络合,形成四配位化合物。将硼元素引入传统的光电功能分子当中,往往能给整个体系带来独特的光电性质,这已成为新型有机光电功能分子设计的重要思路。本文围绕硼元素的三配位化合物和四配位化合物,从分子设计理念、化合物光电性质、相关器件的结构与效率等方面对含硼有机光电功能分子及其器件的研究进展进行综述,并对其未来发展做出展望。     

有机电致发光空穴传输材料研究进展*

有机空穴传输材料的成膜性及其薄膜的热稳定性对于提高有机电致发光器件的效率和寿命具有重要的作用.本文按材料所含主体结构单元的不同,将有机空穴传输材料分为三类,从提高材料的成膜性及其热稳定性出发,详细介绍了近年来有机空穴传输材料的研究进展.     

Modulation of the Physicochemical Properties of Donor–Spiro–Acceptor Derivatives through Donor Unit Planarisation: Phenylacridine versus Indoloacridine—New Hosts for Green and Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes (PhOLEDs)

This work reports a detailed structure–property relationship study of a series of efficient host materials based on the donor–spiro–acceptor (D‐spiro‐A) design for green and sky‐blue phosphorescent organic light‐emitting diodes (PhOLEDs). The electronic and physical effects of the indoloacridine (IA) fragment connected through a spiro bridge to different acceptor units, namely, fluorene, dioxothioxanthene or diazafluorene moiety, have been investigated in depth. The resulting host materials have been easily synthesised through short, efficient, low‐cost, and highly adaptable synthetic routes by using common intermediates. The dyes possess a very high triplet energy (E_T) and tuneable HOMO/LUMO levels, depending on the strength of the donor/acceptor combination. The peculiar electrochemical and optical properties of the IA moiety have been investigated though a fine comparison with their phenylacridine counterparts to study the influence of planarisation. Finally, these molecules have been incorporated as hosts in green and sky‐blue PhOLEDs. For the derivative SIA‐TXO₂ as a host, external quantum efficiencies as high as 23 and 14 % have been obtained for green and sky‐blue PhOLEDs, respectively.     

Spiro‐Configured Bipolar Host Materials for Highly Efficient Electrophosphorescent Devices

In this study, we synthesized and characterized a series of spirobifluorene‐based bipolar compounds (D2 ACN, DNPACN, DNTACN, and DCzACN) in which a dicyano‐substituted biphenyl branch, linked orthogonally to a donor biphenyl branch bearing various diarylamines, acted as an acceptor unit allowing fine‐tuning of the morphological stability, triplet energy, bipolar transport behavior, and the HOMO and LUMO energy levels. The promising physical properties of these new compounds, together with their ability to transport electrons and holes with balanced mobilities, made them suitable for use as host materials in highly efficient phosphorescent organic light‐emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) with green iridium‐based‐ or red osmium‐based phosphors as the emitting layer (EML). We adopted a multilayer structure to efficiently confine holes and electrons within the EML, thus preventing exciton diffusion and improving device efficiency. The device incorporating D2 ACN doped with the red emitter [Os(bpftz)₂(PPhMe₂)₂] (bpftz=3‐(trifluoromethyl)‐5‐(4‐tert‐butylpyridyl)‐1,2,4‐triazolate) gave a saturated red electrophosphorescence with CIE coordinates of (0.65, 0.35) and remarkably high efficiencies of 20.3 % (21 cd A^?1) and 13.5 Lm W^?1 at a practical brightness of 1000 cd m^?2.     

有机电致磷光材料的分子设计：从主体材料到客体材料

有机电致磷光器件的设计和利用，可以突破由三线态激子跃迁自旋禁阻引起的有机电致荧光器件量子效率的限制。本文综述了有机电致磷光器件和材料的研究进展，主要介绍了主体材料和客体材料的研究现状，特别是蓝光磷光器件主客体材料的研究情况。     

Aromatic-Imide-Based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Highly Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Aromatic-imide-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials with a twisted donor–acceptor–donor skeleton were efficiently synthesized and exhibited excellent thermal stability and high photoluminescence quantum yields. The small ΔE_ST value (<0.1 eV) along with the clear temperature-dependent delayed component of their transient photoluminescence (PL) spectra demonstrated their excellent TADF properties. Moreover, the performance of organic light-emitting diodes in which TADF materials AI-Cz and AI-TBCz were used as dopants were outstanding, with external quantum efficiencies up to 23.2 and 21.1 %, respectively.     

Multifunctional Materials Serving as Efficient Non-Doped Violet-Blue Emitters and Host Materials for Phosphorescence

Efficient multifunctional materials acting as violet-blue emitters, as well as host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs, are crucial but rare due to demand that they should have high first singlet state (S₁) energy and first triplet state (T₁) energy simultaneously. In this study, two new violet-blue bipolar fluorophores, TPA-PI-SBF and SBF-PI-SBF , were designed and synthesized by introducing the hole transporting moiety triphenylamine (TPA) and spirobifluorene (SBF) unit that has high T₁ into high deep blue emission quantum yield group phenanthroimidazole (PI). As the results, the non-doped OLEDs based on TPA-PI-SBF exhibited excellent EL performance with a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE_max) of 6.76 % and a violet-blue emission with Commission Internationale de L′Eclairage (CIE) of (0.152, 0.059). The device based on SBF-PI-SBF displayed EQE_max of 6.19 % with CIE of (0.159, 0.049), which nearly matches the CIE coordinates of the violet-blue emitters standard of (0.131, 0.046). These EL performances are comparable to the best reported non-doped deep or violet-blue emissive OLEDs with CIEy<0.06 in recent years. Additionally, the green, yellow and red phosphorescent OLEDs with TPA-PI-SBF and SBF-PI-SBF as host materials achieved a high EQE_max of about 20 % and low efficiency roll-off at the ultra-high luminance of 10 000 cd m⁻². These results provided a new construction strategy for designing high-performance violet-blue emitters, as well as efficient host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs.     

Configurationally Stable Platinahelicene Enantiomers for Efficient Circularly Polarized Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Chiral materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are potentially applicable for 3D displays. In this study, by decorating the pyridinyl-helicene ligands with -CF₃ and -F groups, the platinahelicene enantiomers featured superior configurational stability, as well as high sublimation yield (>90 %) and clear CPPL properties, with dissymmetry factors (|g_PL|) of approximately 3.7×10⁻³ in solution and about 4.1×10⁻³ in doped film. The evaporated circularly polarized phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (CP-PhOLEDs) with two enantiomers as emitters exhibited symmetric CPEL signals with |g_EL| of (1.1–1.6)×10⁻³ and decent device performances, achieving a maximum brightness of 11 590 cd m⁻², a maximum external quantum efficiency up to 18.81 %, which are the highest values among the reported devices based on chiral phosphorescent Pt^II complexes. To suppress the effect of reverse CPEL signal from the cathode reflection, the further implementation of semitransparent aluminum/silver cathode successfully boosts up the |g_EL| by over three times to 5.1×10⁻³.     

A Deep-Blue-Emitting Heteroatom-Doped MR-TADF Nonacene for High-Performance Organic Light-Emitting Diodes**

We present a p- and n-doped nonacene compound, NOBNacene, that represents a rare example of a linearly extended ladder-type multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitter. This compound shows efficient narrow deep blue emission, with a λ_PL of 410 nm, full width at half maximum, FWHM, of 38 nm, photoluminescence quantum yield, Φ_PL of 71 %, and a delayed lifetime, τ_d of 1.18 ms in 1.5 wt % TSPO1 thin film. The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) using this compound as the emitter shows a comparable electroluminescence spectrum peaked at 409 nm (FWHM=37 nm) and a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE_max) of 8.5 % at Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.173, 0.055). The EQE_max values were increased to 11.2 % at 3 wt % doping of the emitter within the emissive layer of the device. At this concentration, the electroluminescence spectrum broadened slightly, leading to CIE coordinates of (0.176, 0.068).     

一种联咔唑类双极性蓝色磷光主体材料的合成及性能

以联咔唑作为电子给体,二苯基磷氧基团作为电子受体,设计合成了双极性蓝色磷光主体材料6,6'-二(二苯基磷氧基)-9,9'-二己基-3,3'-联咔唑(DPDBC)。通过紫外-可见(UV-Vis)、荧光、低温磷光、循环伏安法、热重分析(TGA)、差热分析(DSC)和密度泛函理论(DFT)对其性能及轨道能级等进行了研究。结果表明,化合物DPDBC在CH₂Cl₂稀溶液中有两个吸收峰,最大吸收峰位于306 nm;它的荧光发射峰位于420 nm,属于深蓝色荧光;DPDBC的低温磷光光谱的第一发射峰位于447 nm,其三重态能级为2.77 eV,与蓝色磷光客体材料FIrpic (2.62 eV)的能级相匹配;测定其循环伏安特性曲线,计算得到它的HOMO能级为-5.48 eV,与阳极ITO的功函(-4.5~-5.0 eV)相匹配,LUMO能级为-2.36 eV,接近于电子传输材料PBD(-2.82 eV),表明它具有双极性能;TGA显示其分解温度为410℃,表明热稳定性能优良,DSC显示其T_g温度为140℃,表明其具有无定形态结构及良好的成膜性能。因此,DPDBC是一种集双极性传输性能于一体,同时又具有优良热稳定性能的潜在蓝色磷光主体材料。     

Syntheses,Photophysics, and Application of Iridium(III) Phosphorescent Emitters for Highly Efficient,Long‐Life Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

Long live the OLED! Rational design and synthesis of Ir^III complexes bearing two cyclometalated ligands (C N) and one 2‐(diphenylphosphino)phenolate chelate (P O) as well as the corresponding Ir^III derivatives with only one (C N) ligand and two P O chelates are reported. According to the observed photophysical data, a P O ligand is found to be able to fine‐tune the light‐emitting electronic transition of these complexes.

     

Effects of Substitution Position of Carbazole-Dibenzofuran Based High Triplet Energy Hosts to Device Stability of Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

High triplet energy hosts were developed through the modification of the substitution position of carbazole units. Two carbazole-dibenzofuran-derived compounds, 9,9′-(dibenzo[b,d]furan-2,6-diyl)bis(9H-carbazole) (26CzDBF) and 4,6-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)dibenzo[b,d]furan (46CzDBF), were synthesized for achieving high triplet energy hosts. In comparison with the reported hole transport type host, 2,8-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)dibenzo[b,d]furan (28CzDBF), 26CzDBF and 46CzDBF maintained high triplet energy over 2.95 eV. The device performances of the hosts were evaluated with electron transport type host, 2-phenyl-4, 6-bis(3-(triphenylsilyl)phenyl)-1,3,5-triazine (mSiTrz), to comprise a mixed host system. The deep blue phosphorescent device of 26CzDBF:mSiTrz with [[5-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-phenyl-1H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyrazin-1-yl-2(3H)-ylidene]-1,2-phenylene]bis[[6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-phenyl-1H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyrazin-1-yl-2(3H)-ylidene]-1,2-phenylene]iridium (Ir(cb)₃) dopant exhibited high external quantum efficiency of 22.9% with a color coordinate of (0.14, 0.16) and device lifetime of 1400 h at 100 cd m⁻². The device lifetime was extended by 75% compared to the device lifetime of 28CzDBF:mSiTrz (800 h). These results demonstrated that the asymmetric and symmetric substitution of carbazole can make differences in the device performance of the carbazole- and dibenzofuran- derived hosts.