Investigation of cross-linking characteristics of novel hole-transporting materials for solution-processed phosphorescent OLEDs

Jaemin Lee; Shahid Ameen; Changjin Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2227292

27 April 2016 Investigation of cross-linking characteristics of novel hole-transporting materials for solution-processed phosphorescent OLEDs

Jaemin Lee, Shahid Ameen, Changjin Lee

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Proceedings Volume 9895, Organic Photonics VII; 98950G (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227292
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

After the success of commercialization of the vacuum-evaporated organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), solutionprocessing or printing of OLEDs are currently attracting much research interests. However, contrary to various kinds of readily available vacuum-evaporable OLED materials, the solution-processable OLED materials are still relatively rare. Hole-transporting layer (HTL) materials for solution-processed OLEDs are especially limited, because they need additional characteristics such as cross-linking to realize multilayer structures in solution-processed OLEDs, as well as their own electrically hole-transporting characteristics. The presence of such cross-linking characteristics of solutionprocessable HTL materials therefore makes them more challenging in the development stage, and also makes them essence of solution-processable OLED materials. In this work, the structure-property relationships of thermally crosslinkable HTL materials were systematically investigated by changing styrene-based cross-linking functionalities and modifying the carbazole-based hole-transporting core structures. The temperature dependency of the cross-linking characteristics of the HTL materials was systematically investigated by the UV-vis. absorption spectroscopy. The new HTL materials were also applied to green phosphorescent OLEDs, and their device characteristics were also investigated based on the chemical structures of the HTL materials. The device configuration was [ITO / PEDOT:PSS / HTL / EML / ETL / CsF / Al]. We found out that the chemical structures of the cross-linking functionalities greatly affect not only the cross-linking characteristics of the resultant HTL materials, but also the resultant OLED device characteristics. The increase of the maximum luminance and efficiency of OLEDs was evident as the cross-linking temperature decreases from higher than 200°C to at around 150°C.

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Jaemin Lee, Shahid Ameen, and Changjin Lee "Investigation of cross-linking characteristics of novel hole-transporting materials for solution-processed phosphorescent OLEDs", Proc. SPIE 9895, Organic Photonics VII, 98950G (27 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227292

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