Abstract:
An OLED device includes, in order, an electron blocking layer, an organic emissive layer, and a hole blocking layer. Its organic emissive layer contains at least four components: an electron transporting compound, a host, a hole transporting compound, and an emitting compound capable of phosphorescence emission at room temperature. The emitting compound has HOMO energy level of 5.2 eV or lower and a LUMO energy level of 2.5 eV or higher.
Abstract:
An improved OLED includes an emissive layer disposed between a cathode and an anode where the emissive layer includes a multi-component host material and a phosphorescent emitter material. The host material includes at least a first host compound and a second host compound, where the first host compound is hole-transporting host compound having the general formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 may be the same or different fluorine atom, chlorine atom, a deuterium atom, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, a nitro group, linear or branched alkyl group (C1-C6), cyclo-alkyl group (C5-C10), linear or branched alkoxy group (C1-C6), cyclo-alkoxy group (C5˜C10), substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group, r1, r4, r5=0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 r2, r3, r6;=0, 1, 2 or 3 n=0 or 1, and Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 may be the same or different, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group, deuterium substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, deuterium substituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or deuterium substituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group.
Abstract:
A circuit for a pixel in a display device includes drive circuitry, an organic light emitting diode in electrical connection with the drive circuitry, and at least one resistive current path which is selected to be non-emissive in electrical connection with the drive circuitry and in parallel with the organic light emitting diode.
Abstract:
A compound having an ancillary ligand L1 having the formula: Formula I is disclosed. The ligand L1 is coordinated to a metal M having an atomic number greater than 40, and two adjacent substituents are optionally joined to form into a ring. Such compound is suitable for use as emitters in organic light emitting devices.
Abstract:
A compound having a formula (LA)mIr(LB)3-m having a structure selected from
is disclosed. In the structures of formula (LA)mIr(LB)3-m, m is 1 or 2, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are each independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, C1 to C6 alkyl, C1 to C6 cycloalkyl, and partially or fully deuterated variants thereof, and partially or fully fluorinated variants thereof, and, R6 is selected from C1 to C6 alkyl, C1 to C6 cycloalkyl, and partially or fully deuterated variants thereof, and partially or fully fluorinated variants thereof.
Abstract:
A composition formed of a mixture of two compounds having similar thermal evaporation properties that are pre-mixed into an evaporation source that can be used to co-evaporate the two compounds into an emission layer in OLEDs via vacuum thermal evaporation process is disclosed.
Abstract:
A compound of: is disclosed. In Formula IV, ring B and ring C are each independently a 5 or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; A-B represents a bonded pair of carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings coordinated to a metal M via a nitrogen atom in ring A and an sp2 hybridized atom in ring B; A-C represents a bonded pair of carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings; M is a metal having an atomic number greater than 40; L′ is a monoanionic bidentate ligand; m is the oxidation state of the metal M; and n is at least 1.
Abstract:
A compound is disclosed that has a metal coordination complex structure having at least two ligands coordinated to the metal; wherein the compound has a first substituent R1 at one of the ligands' periphery; wherein a first distance is defined as the distance between the metal and one of the atoms in R1 where that atom is the farthest away from the metal among the atoms in R1; wherein the first distance is also longer than any other atom-to-metal distance between the metal and any other atoms in the compound; and wherein when a sphere having a radius r is defined whose center is at the metal and the radius r is the smallest radius that will allow the sphere to enclose all atoms in the compound that are not part of R1, the first distance is longer than the radius r by at least 2.9 Å.
Abstract:
A first method comprises providing a plurality of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) on a first substrate. Each of the OLEDs includes a transmissive top electrode. The plurality of OLEDs includes a first portion of OLEDs and a second portion of OLEDs that is different from the first portion. The first method further includes depositing a first capping layer over at least the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs such that the first capping layer is optically coupled to at least the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs. A second capping layer is deposited over at least the second portion of the plurality of OLEDs such that the second capping layer is optically coupled to the second portion of the plurality of OLEDs but not the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs.
Abstract:
An OLED device includes, in order, an electron blocking layer, an organic emissive layer, and a hole blocking layer. Its organic emissive layer contains at least four components: an electron transporting compound, a host, a hole transporting compound, and an emitting compound capable of phosphorescence emission at room temperature. The emitting compound has HOMO energy level of 5.2 eV or lower and a LUMO energy level of 2.5 eV or higher.