Issue 4, 2019

Precise regulation of the emissive layer for ultra-high performance white organic light-emitting diodes in an exciplex forming co-host system

Abstract

Nowadays, white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have attracted more attention in solid-state lighting due to their merits of low power consumption, flat shadowless illumination, soft and weak blue light, flexible emission and so on. Regrettably, it is still an extremely challenging subject to achieve ultra-efficient WOLEDs exceeding 100 lm W−1. In this paper, we present a general approach to achieve low turn-on voltage (∼2.4 V), ultra-high efficiency WOLEDs based on an exciplex forming co-host system. The key to our design strategy is the precise management of the phosphor dopant concentration and the reasonable arrangement of the emissive layers to efficiently solve the trade-off between charge carrier trapping and energy transfer in electroluminescence (EL) processes. The resulting WOLEDs realize a forward-viewing maximum power efficiency and external quantum efficiency of 106.4 lm W−1 and 23.5%, 69.9 lm W−1 and 23.4%, respectively, for complementary-color and three-color WOLEDs. The EQEs retain over 22% at 1000 cd m−2, exhibiting extremely low efficiency roll-off. Such outstanding device performance and ultra-high efficiencies should be attributed to the enhancement of energy transfer and the reduction of charge carrier trapping in the exciplex co-host system. These findings will be conducive to enhancing the efficiency of WOLEDs, and promoting industrial development in lighting markets.

Graphical abstract: Precise regulation of the emissive layer for ultra-high performance white organic light-emitting diodes in an exciplex forming co-host system

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
11 Jan 2019
Accepted
08 Feb 2019
First published
12 Feb 2019

Mater. Chem. Front., 2019,3, 640-649

Precise regulation of the emissive layer for ultra-high performance white organic light-emitting diodes in an exciplex forming co-host system

S. Ying, Q. Sun, Y. Dai, D. Yang, X. Qiao and D. Ma, Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 640 DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00017H

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