Biphenyl Core Organic Light Emitting Material for Blue Color Purity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing organic light emitting devices face challenges in achieving high luminous efficiency and pure blue color emission, particularly for blue light, due to insufficient brightness and high driving voltage requirements.

Innovation Solution

A novel organic light emitting material is developed, incorporating a blue fluorescent dopant added to a host material, which enhances brightness and minimizes driving voltage by using specific aromatic groups and substituents in the chemical structure, allowing for efficient blue light emission with high color purity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a compound having amine branching at biphenyl is used as organic light emitting material, then internal quantum efficiency is improved, but blue color purity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinternal quantum efficiencyVSAvoidblue color purity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical structure parameters by introducing specific aromatic groups (phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl, phenanthrene, terphenyl) as substituents at defined positions (R1-R4) of the biphenyl core structure. This structural parameter modification enables simultaneous achievement of high internal quantum efficiency and pure blue color emission by optimizing electron-hole recombination while controlling emission wavelength.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite molecular structure combining the biphenyl core with various aromatic groups and substituent patterns. This composite approach allows the material to exhibit both high efficiency characteristics from the amine branching and pure blue color properties from the specific aromatic substitutions, resolving the contradiction between efficiency and color purity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Ease of manufacture

If existing blue light emitting compounds are used, then device fabrication is simplified, but luminous efficiency and brightness are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefabrication simplicityVSAvoidluminous efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent modifies the molecular parameters by incorporating electron-donating aromatic groups and optimizing the substitution patterns on the biphenyl core. These parameter changes enhance the material's luminous efficiency and brightness while maintaining compatibility with existing organic light emitting device fabrication processes, thus improving productivity without sacrificing ease of manufacture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If high internal quantum efficiency is achieved, then luminous efficiency is improved, but driving voltage increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveluminous efficiencyVSAvoiddriving voltage
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the energy level parameters of the organic light emitting material by selecting specific aromatic groups with appropriate HOMO-LUMO energy gaps. The biphenyl-based structure with defined substituents creates favorable energy alignment with charge transport layers, enabling high luminous efficiency at reduced driving voltages through improved charge injection and transport characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution significantly improves brightness and color purity of blue light emission while reducing the driving voltage, outperforming previous technologies by 1.5-2.5V and achieving more accurate color coordinates, thus enabling the production of full natural colors including dark blue.

Implementation Method 1

a blue fluorescent dopant added to a host material, which enhances brightness and minimizes driving voltage

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Data Source

PatentUS8940409B2Organic light emitting material and organic light emitting device using the same
Publication Date: 2015.01.27 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is an organic light emitting material having the following chemical formula, for improving luminous efficiency,where R1, R2, R3 and R4 denote materials selected from an aromatic group with 6-24 carbon atoms (C6-C24), the group being independently substituted or unsubstituted, preferably, an aromatic group with 6-24 carbon atoms (C6-C24), the group consisting of trimethylsilane (TMS), CN, halogen (F, Cl, Br) alkyl groups with 1-4 carbon atoms (C1-C4).