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Title: Hot excited state management for long-lived blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15566· OSTI ID:1389266
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  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  2. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  3. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Since their introduction over 15 years ago, the operational lifetime of blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) has remained insufficient for their practical use in displays and lighting. Their short lifetime results from annihilation between high-energy excited states, producing energetically hot states (46.0 eV) that lead to molecular dissociation. We introduce a strategy to avoid dissociative reactions by including a molecular hot excited state manager within the device emission layer. Hot excited states transfer to the manager and rapidly thermalize before damage is induced on the dopant or host. As a consequence, the managed blue PHOLED attains T80=334±5 h (time to 80% of the 1,000 cd m -2 initial luminance) with a chromaticity coordinate of (0.16, 0.31), corresponding to 3.6±0.1 times improvement in a lifetime compared to conventional, unmanaged devices. We believe that, this significant improvement results in the longest lifetime for such a blue PHOLED.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
EE0007077
OSTI ID:
1389266
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 155 works
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