Flexible top-emitting warm-white organic light-emitting diodes with highly luminous performances and extremely stable chromaticity

Hongying Shi, Lingling Deng, Shufen Chen, Ying Xu, Hongwei Zhou, Fan Cheng, Xingao Li, Lianhui Wang, Wei Huang

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Abstract

The flexible top-emitting white organic light-emitting diode (FTEWOLED) with a very high efficiency but a significant color alteration is achieved with a blue/red/blue sandwiched tri-emission-layer. The voltage-dependent recombination region alternation and the emission mechanism are systematically investigated through a delta-doping method and the time-resolved transient photoluminescence lifetime measurement. By locating the main exciton recombination region at the 4,4′,4″-Tris(carbazol-9-yl)- triphenylamine (TCTA) and 9,9-spirobifluoren-2-yl-diphenyl-phosphine oxide (SPPO1) interface, replacing the carrier-trapping red dopant guest with an orange guest that utilizes energy transfer mechanism, and using a P-I-N structure together with the FIrpic blue guest dopant to balance the electron and hole carriers, an extremely color stable and a very high efficient FTEWOLED is fabricated, with the resulting high current and power efficiencies of 22.7 cd/A and 14.27 lm/W, and a warm white illumination with a small chromaticity variation of (-0.0087, +0.0015) over a broad luminance range of more than four orders of magnitude. In addition, the performances can be further improved to 23,340 cd/m2, 24.49 cd/A and 15.39 lm/W with a slight concentration alteration of the orange emitter.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1465-1475
Number of pages11
JournalOrganic Electronics
Volume15
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Efficient
  • Flexible
  • Sandwiched structure
  • Stable emitting mechanism
  • Top-emitting
  • White organic light-emitting diodes

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