New bipolar host materials for high performance of phosphorescent green organic light-emitting diodes

Abstract

We report a series of four bipolar host materials with indenocarbozole and biphenyl pyrimidine moieties for efficient phosphorescent green organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). All four host materials possess excellent electro-optical properties as well as good thermal and morphological stability due to their high glass transition temperature of 129 °C and decomposition temperature of 363–401 °C. The new materials also show good triplet energy of 2.76 eV and excellent charge carrier transport properties. The fabricated OLED device with 11-[3-(2,6-diphenyl-pyrimidin-4-yl)-phenyl]-12,12-dimethyl-11,12-dihydro-11-aza-indeno[2,1-a]fluorene (mDPPICz1) as green host shows maximum current and power efficiency as high as 75.8 cd A⁻¹ and 87.1 lm W⁻¹ at 1000 cd m⁻², and an almost ideal external quantum efficiency of 21.7%.