High Performance White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Blue Fluorescence and Red Phosphorescence

Highly efficient blue emitting material (DAnP) consisting of anthracene and pyrene was designed and synthesized. The PL_max of the DAnP is 469 nm in the solution state and 480 nm in the film state. DAnP was used as non-doped emitting layer (EMLs) in OLEDs with the following structures: ITO/2-TNATA (60 nm)/NPB (15 nm)/DAnP (35 nm)/Alq₃ (20 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (200 nm). The DAnP device has current efficiency of 5.45 cd/A, power efficiency of 2.71 lm/W, and CIEs of (0.19, 0.40) at 10 mA/cm². An efficient multilayer white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) with the structure of ITO/NPB (30 nm)/CBP: 3 wt% Ir(piq)₃ (10 nm)/DAnP (40 nm)/TPBi (40 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (200 nm) was fabricated and characterized, where DAnP and tris(1-phenylisoquinoline) iridium (III) [Ir(piq)₃] were used as a blue fluorescent emitter and a red phosphorescent emitter respectively. A WOLED showed current efficiency of 5.08 cd/A, power efficiency of 2.55 lm/W, and CIEs of (0.35, 0.36) at 10 mA/cm².