Acta Physica Sinica, Volume. 69, Issue 4, 047202-1(2020)

Highly efficient all-phosphorescent white organic light-emitting diodes with low efficiency roll-off and stable-color by managing triplet excitons in emissive layer

Xin-Ming Xiao1, Long-Shan Zhu2, Yu Guan2, Jie Hua2, Hong-Mei Wang1, He Dong2, and Jin Wang2、*
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  • 1Jilin Engineering Vocational College, Siping 136001, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Information & Technology, Jilin Normal University, Siping 136000, China
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    White organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have drawn considerable attention for next-generation lighting and display applications owing to their remarkable advantages. Phosphorescent OLED technology is crucial to realize high-efficiency white OLEDs because phosphorescent emitters enable to achieve almost 100% internal quantum efficiency (IQE) by harvesting all the excitons of 75% of triplets and 25% of singlets. However, an efficiency roll-off at high-brightness and a shift in color under various operation biases remains challenges. With the goal towards commercial applications, it requires WOLEDs should simultaneously realize high efficiency at high-brightness region over 1000 cd/m2 and good color stability over a wide electroluminescent range. In this paper, we first investigated the energy transfer process between the blue-emitting Bis (3,5-difluoro-2-(2-pyridyl)phenyl-(2-carboxypyridyl) iridium (III) (Firpic) and the orange emitting Iridium (III) bis(4-(4-tert-butylphenyl)thieno[3,2-c]pyridinato-N,C2')acetylacetonate (PO-01-TB), in addition to the behavior of the carrier trapping in the phosphorescent OLEDs with double emissive layers. Then we successfully fabricated phosphorescent WOLED with multiple emissive layers. The resulting phosphorescent WOLED achieves the maximum forward-viewing current efficiency (CE) of 34.6 cd/A and external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 13.5%, and the CE and the EQE remain 33.9 cd/A and 13.3% at 1000 cd/m2, respectively, indicating that the WOLED exhibits low efficiency roll-off. Furthermore, the WOLED shows very stable white emission with small Commission Internationale de L’Eclairage (CIE) coordinate varying range of (0.016, 0.011) from 1000 to 10000 cd/m2. The results provide a promising avenue to simultaneously achieve high efficiency, lower the efficiency roll-off at high brightness and color-stability for phosphorescent WOLEDs by carefully designing the device architecture to redistribute the charge carriers and excitons in the recombination zone.

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    Xin-Ming Xiao, Long-Shan Zhu, Yu Guan, Jie Hua, Hong-Mei Wang, He Dong, Jin Wang. Highly efficient all-phosphorescent white organic light-emitting diodes with low efficiency roll-off and stable-color by managing triplet excitons in emissive layer[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2020, 69(4): 047202-1

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    Received: Oct. 21, 2019

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    Published Online: Nov. 17, 2020

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    DOI:10.7498/aps.69.20191594

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