Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Physics; Institute of Advanced Material
Language
English
Abstract
High performing tetra-chromatic hybrid white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED), with a fluorescent blue emitting layer (EML) of Bis[2-(2-hydroxyphenyl) -pyridine]beryllium (Bepp2) sandwiched between a pair of phosphors-doped hole transporting layer (HTL) and electron transporting layer (ETL), was developed. This was achieved by controlling the location of the green phosphor doped in HTL and yellow phosphor doped in ETL at ∼1 nm away from the HTL/EML and EML/ETL interfaces, and incorporating an ultrathin red phosphorescence layer (< 0.1 nm) in the center of Bepp2 EML. The resulting hybrid WOLED realizes good warm white emission, showing stable electroluminescence spectra with a maximum color rendering index (CRI) of 94 and a low correlated color temperature of 2440−2468 K over a wide voltage range from 5−9 V. Meanwhile, this WOLED also achieves high device efficiency, the maximum current efficiency, power efficiency, and external quantum efficiency up to 34.15 cd/A, 29.51 lm/W, and 17.71 %, respectively. Such high performance is realized through the precise manipulation and effective exploitation of singlet and triplet excitons via novel device design. Moreover, the proposed WOLED also removes the additional interlayers between the fluorescent and phosphorescent emitting regions that are commonly employed in the conventional hybrid WOLEDs, inducing a simplified device structure with reduced heterojunction interfaces, which is very beneficial for promoting the commercial development of WOLEDs.
Publication Date
12-2017
Source Publication Title
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume
5
Issue
47
Start Page
12474
End Page
12482
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
Funder
This work was financially supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (Grant No. 61705156, 61605137); K. C. Wong Education Foundation–Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Fellowship Program for Mainland Visiting Scholars 2017–2018; Key Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology of Shanxi Province (Grant No. 201513002-10); HKBU Inter-institutional Collaborative Research Scheme (ICRS) (Project No. RC-ICRS/15-16/04) and Shanxi Province Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 201601D021018, 201601D011031).
DOI
10.1039/C7TC04528J
Link to Publisher's Edition
ISSN (print)
20507526
Recommended Citation
Miao, Yanqin, Kexiang Wang, Bo Zhao, Long Gao, Yiwen Wang, Hua Wang, Bingshe Xu, and Furong Zhu. "Manipulation and exploitation of singlet and triplet excitons for hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes with superior efficiency/CRI/color stability." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 5.47 (2017): 12474-12482.