Synthesis and design of organic light-emitting devices containing lanthanide cored complexes

Gregory David Phelan; Brenden Carlson; Rhys Lawson; Daniel Rowe; Kolby Allen; Larry Dalton; Xuezhong Jiang; Joo Hyun Kim; Alex K.-Y. Jen

doi:10.1117/12.506518

16 February 2004 Synthesis and design of organic light-emitting devices containing lanthanide-cored complexes

Gregory David Phelan, Brenden Carlson, Rhys Lawson, Daniel Rowe, Kolby Allen, Larry Dalton, Xuezhong Jiang, Joo Hyun Kim, Alex K.-Y. Jen

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Proceedings Volume 5214, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices VII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506518
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There is a considerable interest in the use of metal centered materials as a light source in the growing field of organic light emitting devices (OLED's). In these devices, a polymeric host matrix containing either a carbazole type polymer or polyfluorene derivatives is used to help facilitate energy transfer to the luminophore. We have shown that by using a gadolinium complex that consist of three equivalents of a chelated dibenzoylmethane b-diketone ligand and one equivalent of a phenanthroline type ligand as a component in the host matrix, the performance of a double layer type OLED is improved. We have studied OLED systems that contain tris chelated europium compounds that contain three equivalents of partially fluorinated β-diketone type ligands and an equivalent of a phenanthroline type ligand. In these devices, the external efficiency has shown a 30-fold increase. We have also shown there is an increase for Osmium based OLED's that use the gadolinium complex as part of the polymer matrix. In these devices, the maximum quantum efficiency increased from 2.1% to a value of 3.8%.

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Gregory David Phelan, Brenden Carlson, Rhys Lawson, Daniel Rowe, Kolby Allen, Larry Dalton, Xuezhong Jiang, Joo Hyun Kim, and Alex K.-Y. Jen "Synthesis and design of organic light-emitting devices containing lanthanide-cored complexes", Proc. SPIE 5214, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices VII, (16 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506518

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