有机-过渡金属配合物的三重态发光问题

近年来,随着OLED器件的发展,有关有机-过渡金属配合物的三重态发光问题受到人们广泛的关注。这不仅是与电致发光器件效率的提高相关联,同时也是一个在光物理研究中值得深入研究的课题.文章对有机-金属化合物激发态的能级分裂,以及发光三重态亚态的零场-分裂(ZFS)等进行了讨论,对具不同电子构型中心金属离子,例如八面体结构与平面四方形构型结构等与它们光物理行为间的关系进行了讨论.特别对这类体系的发光三重态在自旋轨道偶合作用(SOC)和构型相互作用(CI)的影响下,导致单重态与三重态的混合和促进从最低三重态到基态的发光跃迁进行了讨论.     

蓝光热激子材料的研究进展

热激子荧光材料由于交错的能级排列,激子在电致发光过程中可由高位三重态通过反向系间窜跃转换到单重态,从而最大限度利用三重态激子,实现理论100%的最大内量子效率,这不仅突破了传统荧光材料和三重态-三重态上转换发光材料在激子利用上的限制,而且克服了热活化延迟荧光(TADF)材料在高电流密度下效率滚降严重的问题,因而在电致发光上显现出独特的优势.蓝光长期以来是有机光电全彩显示的短板.蓝光显示上,磷光材料和TADF材料的色纯度和稳定性往往不尽如人意,而热激子材料可实现更高品质的蓝光发射,即使在深蓝领域也能表现出不俗的器件性能.系统地综述了蓝光热激子材料的发光机理、设计准则以及近年来具有代表性的研究成果,并对其发展趋势进行展望.     

有机重金属配合物磷光材料的合成与性能研究

磷光材料因能同时利用单重态激子和三重态激子的发光而在近期有机发光二极管(OLED)器件的研究中大受青睐.Forrest和Thompson两个研究小组合作,先后合成了一系列以2-苯基吡啶及其衍生物或类似物为配体,β-二酮等为辅助配体的环金属化的铱(或铂)配合物[1,2],然后分别将其用作磷光染料掺杂于电荷传输主体材料作为有机电致发光器件中的发光层,极大地提高了器件的外量子效率.     

蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料

有机电致发光(OLEDs)因其具有驱动电压低、主动发光、亮度高、视角宽、响应快、耐冲击与震动等特点,在平板显示与照明领域有着广阔的应用前景。磷光有机电致发光二极管(PhOLEDs)由于能够同时利用三重态和单重态激子,内量子效率从理论上可达到100%,从而克服了传统荧光OLEDs只利用单重态激子时效率25%的限制,在过去的几十年里受到业内人士的极大关注。但要实现三重态磷光,通常需要将重金属原子与主体材料进行掺杂,而重金属配合物的磷光寿命相对较长,容易引起浓度猝灭和三重态-三重态湮灭,所以需要找到合适的主体材料与重金属的磷光发射体进行掺杂来减少上述因素的影响从而得到高性能的电致磷光器件。本文综述了近年来国内外蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料的研究状况,并对空穴传输型、电子传输型和双极传输型的蓝色磷光主体材料按照官能团的不同进行了分类总结和评述,并对其光物理性质、热学性质、电化学性质及器件性能等作了详细归纳比较,最后展望了蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料的前景和发展趋势。     

敏化型电致发光器件原理与技术

近年来,高性能荧光有机电致发光器件(FOLEDs)的开发受到了广泛关注。由于荧光材料仅能利用25%的单重态激子辐射发光,FOLEDs的外量子效率(EQE)理论极限为5%。通过能量转移,充分利用主体分子的单重态与三重态激子敏化荧光客体发光,可以提高激子利用率。目前敏化型FOLEDs(SFOLEDs)的最高EQE已达26.1%。本文详细介绍了SFOLEDs的敏化原理和机制,并根据敏化机制的不同,系统地总结了热活化延迟荧光敏化、激基复合物敏化、三重态湮灭敏化和局域电荷转移杂化激发态(HLCT)敏化等各类SFOLEDs的材料与器件结构特点及其研究进展。最后本综述对该类器件的研究前景进行了展望,期待吸引更多专业的研究人员的研究兴趣,进而推动该领域的发展。     

电子给体-受体型热活化延迟荧光蓝光材料研究进展

热活化延迟荧光材料由于其最低激发单重态和最低激发三重态之间的能级差较小,三重态激子可以通过反向系间窜越过程上转换到单重态,实现无贵金属添加的三重态激子参与的荧光发射,大大提高了发光效率,解决了传统荧光有机发光二极管(OLED)内/外量子效率(≤25%/≤5%)低下的问题;与磷光OLED相比,避免了使用贵金属,在造价方面具有更大优势.在类型众多的热活化延迟荧光(TADF)材料中,由于电子给体-受体型分子合成简单,性能出众而成为近年来的研究热点.另一方面,高效蓝光材料的稳定性及色纯度问题一直是该领域研究亟待解决的难题.本文将依据不同电子给受体单元,对电子给体-受体型热活化延迟荧光蓝光材料及其OLED器件的最新进展、发光原理和设计原则进行了简要综述,并对其发展作出展望.     

利用三线态激子提高有机/高分子发光器件的量子效率

有机/高分子电致发光器件(O/PLED) 的发光效率远低于理论值,除器件结构有待优化之外,大部分三线态激子的能量没有得到利用是主要原因.近年来,利用三线态激子的发光来提高O/PLED的发光效率取得了积极的进展.本文从利用三线态激子的发光机制入手,综述了国内外在高效发光领域磷光材料利用的主要研究进展及发展方向。     

含空穴传输和电子注入基的发光化合物的制备

对电致发光材料及器件(ELDs)发光性能的优化,一个重要的途径是在材料的组合中,要既具有空穴传输功能团,又具有电子注入功能团,并使两者的传输效率应尽量达到一个恰当的平衡,提高载流子传输中空穴与电子的复合几率,降低驱动电压,提高激子的发生几率,并对发光材料的发光区域进行控制[1].为此,在电致发光材料的分子设计及合成上,常需提供分子中含有空穴传输功能基团和分子中含有电子注入功能基团的有机分子,作为构筑电致发光器件的材料化合物,或将这两种功能团纳入到一个有机分子或高分子中.     

苯并噻唑衍生物用作EL器件中发光材料的研究

在多层结构的有机电致发光器件(EL)研制中,一个最富吸引力的提高器件发光效率的方法是通过选择具有高荧光量子产率的发光染料为掺杂剂,加入到作为主体的电子或空穴传输层内,经电子与空穴在主体化合物层内的复合形成激子,经能量转移,激发染料分子,发射染料荧光.     

分子筛限域碳点实现超长寿命热活化延迟荧光

正热活化延迟荧光(TADF)材料由于其较小的单重态-三重态能级差(ΔEST),三重态可通过反系间窜跃转向单重态而发出延迟荧光,从而获得潜在的高荧光量子效率。这类材料独特的发光性能使其在光电器件、生物成像、传感等应用方面展现出优势~(1,2)。但目前报道的TADF材料主要集中于纯有机材料和有机金属络合物,其延迟荧光寿命     

Electroluminescent properties of a partially‐conjugated hyperbranched poly(p‐phenylene vinylene)

In this paper, the electroluminescent properties of a new partially‐conjugated hyperbranched poly (p‐phenylene vinylene) (HPPV) were studied. The single layer light‐emitting device with HPPV as the emitting layer emits blue‐green light at 496 nm, with a luminance of 160 cd/m² at 9 V, a turn‐on voltage of 4.3 V and an electroluminescent efficiency of 0.028 cd/A. By doping an electron‐transport material [2‐(4‐biphenylyl)‐5‐phenyl‐1,3,4‐oxadiazole, PBD] into the emitting layer and inserting a thin layer of tris(8‐hydroxy‐quinoline)aluminum (Alq₃) as electron transporting/hole blocking layer for the devices, the electroluminescent efficiency of 1.42 cd/A and luminance of 1700 cd/m² were achieved. The results demonstrate that the devices with the hyperbranched polymers as emitting material can achieve high efficiency through optimization of device structures. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

不同电子传输层的蓝光有机电致发光器件的性能研究

自从Tang等^[1]首次报道多层有机电致发光器件（OLED）以来,其在亮度和效率上有了质的飞跃,表明器件的结构对提高发光亮度和发光效率起着至关重要的作用,单层器件虽然具有制作简单的优点,但却存在明显缺点：（1）复合发光区靠近金属电极,该处缺陷很多,非辐射复合几率大,导致器件效率降低;（2）由于两种载流子注入不平衡,载流子的复合几率较低,因而影响器件的发光效率,要使发光层中具有高的载流子辐射复合效率,两种载流子的注入及传输能力应相当,否则传输快的一方就会直接穿过发光层到达对电极被猝灭,平衡电子和空穴的注入与传输可通过在电极和发光层之间加入载流子输运层或限制层制作多层器件的途径来实现,基于上述考虑,我们以PPCP为发光层（PPCP是一种荧光效率较高的蓝光材料^[2-4],对其进行深入研究尚未见有文献报道＿,设计了4种不同电子传输层（ETL)的三层 结构的OLED,为研究电子传输层对器件性能的影响,我们还制备了不含电子传输层的双层器件,结果表明,通过选择合适的ETL,OLED的发光亮度及发光效率会有很大程度的改善。     

Hole injection/transport materials derived from Heck and sol-gel chemistry for application in solution-processed organic electronic devices

An organosilicate polymer, based on N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(4-((E)-2-(triethoxysilyl)vinyl)phenyl)biphenyl-4,4'-diamine (TEVS-TPD) with extended conjugation between the Si atom and the aromatic amine, was prepared under mild conditions via sequential Heck and sol-gel chemistry and used as an alternative to poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), the most widely used planarizing hole injection/transport layer in solution-processed organic electronic devices. Spin-coating TEVS-TPD polymer solutions yield defect-free, uniform, thin films with excellent adhesion to the ITO electrode. Upon thermal cross-linking at 180 °C, the cross-linked polymer exhibits excellent solvent resistance and electrochemical stability. Solution-processed organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices using iridium-based triplet emitting layers and cross-linked TEVS-TPD films as a hole injection/transport layer show significantly improved performance including lower leakage current, lower turn-on voltage, higher luminance, and stability at high current density, as compared to the control device prepared with PEDOT:PSS.     

四(8-羟基喹啉)硼锂作为电子注入层的高效有机发光二极管

采用四(8-羟基喹啉)硼锂(LiBq4)代替LiF 作为电子注入材料, 以金属铝作为阴极, 制备了有机电致发光器件. 器件采用N,N'-(α-萘基)-N,N'-苯基联苯二胺(NPB)作为空穴传输层, 三(8-羟基喹啉)铝(Alq3)作为电子传输层和发光层. 采用LiBq4作为电子注入层, 实验结果表明, 器件的亮度、电流效率和起亮电压等性能均有改善, 超过了采用LiF作为电子注入层的器件.器件性能的提升可以用电子注入增强和电荷平衡来解释.     

Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Lithium Contained Alq3 as Electron Injection Layer

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Highly Efficient Organic Blue Electroluminescent Materials and Devices with Mesoscopic Structures

Due to the difficulty in achieving high efficiency and high color purity simultaneously, blue emission is the limiting factor for the performance and stability of OLEDs. Since 2003, we have been working on organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs), especially on blue light. After a series of molecular designs, novel strategies have been proposed from different aspects. At first, highly efficient deep blue emission could be achieved through molecular design with highly twisted structure to suppress fluorescence quenching and redshift. Deep blue emitters with high efficiency in solid state, a twisted structure with aggregation induced emission (AIE) characteristics was incorporated to inhibit molecular aggregation, and triplet‐triplet fusion (TTF) and hybridized localized charge transfer (HLCT) were adopted to increase the ratio of triplet exciton used. Secondly, a highly efficient blue OLED could be achieved through improving charge transport. New electron transport materials (ETMs) with wide band gap were developed to control charge transport balance in devices. Thirdly, a highly efficient deep blue emission could be achieved through a mesoscopic structure of out‐coupling layer. A mesoscopic photonic structured organic thin film was fabricated on the top of metal electrode by self‐aggregation in order to improve the light out‐coupling efficiency.     

Control of cationic conjugated polymer performance in light emitting diodes by choice of counterion

Counterion exchange in cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes provides for a straightforward method to modulate the performance of these materials as the electron transport (injection) layer (ETL) in organic light emitting diodes. The bromide counterions of [(9,9-bis(6'-N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-hexyl)fluorene]bromide (PF-Br) can be easily replaced with trifluoromethylsulfonate (PF-CF3SO3), tetrakis(imidazolyl)borate (PF-BIm4) or tetrakis(3,5-trifluoromethylphenyl)borate (PF-BArF4) by a procedure that involves precipitation and washing. The performance of LEDs using MEH-PPV as the emissive layer, Al as the cathode, and the conjugated polyelectrolytes as the ETL varies in the order: PF-BIm4 > PF-CF3SO3 > PF-Br > PF-BArF4. In the case of PF-BIm4, the luminous efficiencies of the devices are similar to those of devices using Ba as the cathode. Thus, by properly choosing the counterion one can use higher work function metals that are more stable than lower work function metals without a substantial barrier to electron injection.     

Organic light‐emitting diodes with multiple photocrosslinkable hole‐transport layers

We report on photocrosslinkable hole‐transport polymers and their use as photodefinable hole‐transport layers in organic light‐emitting diodes. The polymers were obtained by copolymerization of bis(diarylamino)biphenyl‐based acrylate monomers with cinnamate‐functionalized acrylate moieties. Polymers with a range of redox potentials were obtained by varying the substitution patterns of the bis(diarylamino)biphenyl units. The 2 + 2 cycloaddition of the cinnamate moieties following UV irradiation renders the material insoluble. This allows for patterning of the polymer and simultaneously enables the fabrication of multilayer structures from solution. Hole mobilities were measured in these copolymers with the time‐of‐flight technique. Their performance as hole‐transport layers in light‐emitting diodes, with tris(8‐hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum as the emitter and electron‐transport layer, is evaluated. Electroluminescent devices with multiple hole‐transport layers having different ionization potentials were fabricated from solution, and the quantum efficiency of these devices was greater than that for devices based on a single hole‐transport layer. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 2726–2732, 2003     

Bipolar copolymers comprised mesogen‐jacketed polymer containing oxadiazole units and PVK as host materials for electroluminescent devices

Nonconjugated bipolar transport polymers have been developed as host materials for electroluminescent devices by incorporating both electron‐transporting and hole‐transporting functionalities into copolymers. The random copolymer PCt‐nvk3‐7 containing mesogen‐jacketed segment of P‐Ct have been synthesized and characterized. The effect of mesogen‐jacketed segment content of these bipolar copolymers on device performance has been investigated. The results of polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) show that the jacketed content of copolymers has a significant effect on device performance: lowering charge transport and facilitating the hole‐electron recombination leads to much higher current efficiency. Applying these high triplet random copolymers as host, the maximum current efficiency of 0.70 cd/A and the maximum brightness of 1872.8 cd/m² was achieved for PCt‐nvk3‐7 with an orange‐emitting complex dopant. The results suggest that the bipolar copolymers PCt‐nvks can be good host polymers for electrophosphorescent devices. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 7861–7867, 2008     

Syntheses,structures, and electroluminescence of Ln(2)(acac-azain)(4)(mu-acac-azain)(2) [acac-azain = 1-(N-7-azaindolyl)-1,3-butanedionato,Ln = Tb(III) and Y(III)

Two new luminescent lanthanide complexes Ln(2)(acac-azain)(4)(mu-acac-azain)(2) [acac-azain = 1-(N-7-azaindolyl)-1,3-butanedionato, Ln = Tb(III), 1, Y(III), 2] have been synthesized and structurally characterized. These two dinuclear complexes are isostructural with the two lanthanide ions being bridged by two acac-azain ligands. Each of the two metal ions is further chelated by four oxygen atoms from two acac-azain ligands, resulting in a coordination number eight for each metal ion. 1 displays characteristic Tb(III) emission bands while 2 displays weak blue luminescence attributable to the ligand. Single-layer and double-layer electroluminescent devices for compound 1 were fabricated, where compound 1 doped PVK layer functions as both the emitting layer and the hole transport layer and PBD functions as an electron transport layer (in the double-layer device), demonstrating that compound 1 is a promising green emitter in electroluminescent devices.