Efficiency Roll‐Off in Blue Emitting Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Carbazole Host Materials. (25th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xiang, Chaoyu; Fu, Xiangyu; Wei, Wei; Liu, Rui; Zhang, Yong; Balema, Viktor; Nelson, Bryce; So, Franky
• Is Part Of: Advanced functional materials. Volume 26:Number 9(2016)
• Page Start: 1463
• Page End: 1469
• Publication Date: 2016-01-25
• Subjects: blue phosphorescent OLEDs -- efficiency roll‐off -- ter‐carbazole hosts -- triplet–polaron quenching -- triplet–triplet annihilation; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201504357
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1616-301X

Abstract

Abstract : The efficiency roll‐off in blue phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) using different carbazole compounds as the host is systematically studied. While there is no significant difference in device efficiency, OLEDs using ter ‐carbazole as the host show a reduction in efficiency roll‐off at high luminance. Data from transient photoluminescence and electroluminescence measurements show that the lower triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) and triplet–polaron quenching (TPQ) rates in devices with the ter ‐carbazole host compared with other carbazole hosts are the reasons for this reduced efficiency roll‐off. It is also found that the host materials with low glass transition temperatures are more susceptible to the efficiency roll‐off problem. Abstract : The efficiency roll‐off in blue phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) using different carbazole compounds as the host is studied. While there is no significant difference in device efficiency, OLEDs using ter ‐carbazole as the host show a reduction in efficiency roll‐off at high luminance. Low triplet–triplet and triplet–polaron interactions are identified as the main cause of the suppressed roll‐off.