Pyrene functioned diarylfluorenes as efficient solution processable light emitting molecular glass

Feng Liu, Chao Tang, Qing Quan Chen, Shuang Zhu Li, Hong Bin Wu, Ling Hai Xie, Bo Peng, Wei Wei, Yong Cao, Wei Huang

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Abstract

In this paper, we described a new category of solution processable small molecule organic light emitting materials, the pyrene functioned diarylfluorenes: 2PE-PPF and DPE-PPF. They emit blue light in solution and green light in film, and show high thermal stability with the 5% weight loss temperature (Td) over 400 °C. The glass transition temperature (Tg) for 2PE-PPF and DPE-PPF is 102 °C and 147 °C, respectively. These molecules are interesting molecular glass and they have good film forming abilities. Smooth and uniform film could be obtained by spin-coating. This character enables them able to be used in solution processed OLEDs by spin-coating or jet-printing. Single layered device using 2PE-PPF as the active material shows a turn-on voltage of 3.2 V, brightness over 8000 cd/m2 and current efficiency up to 2.55 cd/A. Double layered device by inserting TPBI as the hole-blocking electron-transporting layer increases the maximum efficiency to 5.83 cd/A.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)256-265
Number of pages10
JournalOrganic Electronics
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fluorescence pyrene light emitting diodes molecular electronics

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