Efficient white organic light-emitting devices based on phosphorescent iridium complexes

S. L. Lai, S. L. Tao, M. Y. Chan, T. W. Ng, M. F. Lo, C. S. Lee, X. H. Zhang, S. T. Lee

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Abstract

Mixing yellow and blue emissions is a commonly used approach for achieving white emission in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). However, as there are relatively few efficient yellow phosphors, their performance is often the bottleneck for the efficiency of phosphorescent white OLEDs (WOLEDs) based on "yellow plus blue" approach. Here, a yellow phosphorescent iridium complex, bis[2-(2-naphthyl)pyridine] (acetylacetonate) iridium(III), has been designed, synthesized and applied in WOLEDs by combining blue emission from iridium-bis-(4,6,-difluorophenyl-pyridinato-N,C2)-picolinate. Without using optical out-coupling or p-i-n confinement structure, the optimized WOLEDs demonstrate a maximum forward viewing power efficiency of 29.2 lm/W (37.2 cd/A and 12.6%) with CIE coordinates of (0.32, 0.45). © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1511-1515
JournalOrganic Electronics: physics, materials, applications
Volume11
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2010

Research Keywords

  • Electroluminescence
  • Organic light-emitting diodes
  • Phosphorescence

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