Fused Ring Polycyclic Compound for Blue OLED Color Purity and Lifetime

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Problem

Current organic light emitting devices face challenges in achieving high color purity and long lifetime, particularly in blue light emission, due to limitations in materials used for organic material layers such as hole injection, transfer, and light emitting layers.

Innovation Solution

A compound with a fused 6-membered ring structure is developed, which can be used in various organic material layers, including hole injection, transfer, blocking, and light emitting layers, exhibiting high color purity and long lifetime properties by minimizing Stokes shift and enhancing energy band gaps.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional organic materials are used in organic light emitting devices, then device operation is achieved, but color purity and lifetime are insufficient particularly in blue light emission

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice lifetimeVSAvoidcolor purity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the molecular structure parameters of organic materials by introducing fused 6-membered ring structures (such as triazine, pyrimidine, pyridine rings) to develop new compounds with optimized HOMO-LUMO energy gaps. This structural parameter change enables simultaneous achievement of high color purity (narrow emission spectrum) and long device lifetime by improving material stability and reducing degradation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs composite material strategies by combining electron-deficient fused ring cores with electron-rich substituent groups (such as carbazole, triphenylamine, dibenzofuran) to create compounds with balanced charge transport properties. This composite molecular design achieves both high color purity through controlled energy levels and extended lifetime through improved charge balance and reduced exciton-polaron annihilation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Illumination intensity

If materials with high color purity are used, then color gamut is improved, but device efficiency and driving voltage remain suboptimal

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor gamutVSAvoidlight emission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the energy level parameters of organic materials by designing fused ring structures with specific electron-deficient cores and electron-rich substituents. This parameter optimization achieves narrow emission bandwidths for high color gamut while maintaining appropriate HOMO-LUMO gaps for efficient charge injection and transport, thus improving both color purity and device efficiency simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality differentiation by introducing specific functional groups at different positions of the fused ring core. The electron-deficient core provides narrow emission for high color gamut, while electron-rich substituents provide efficient charge transport. This spatial differentiation of molecular properties achieves both high color purity and high efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If conventional organic materials are used, then device structure is simple, but Stokes shift is large and energy band gaps are not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematerial structure simplicityVSAvoidStokes shift
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the molecular parameters by incorporating fused 6-membered ring structures (triazine, pyrimidine, pyridine) that provide rigid, planar cores with high structural symmetry. This structural parameter change reduces vibrational modes and minimizes geometry relaxation between ground and excited states, thereby reducing Stokes shift while maintaining reasonable molecular complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the potential harm of increased molecular complexity into a benefit by strategically designing fused ring structures. The added structural complexity of fused rings provides rigid planarity and extended conjugation that actually reduce Stokes shift through minimized geometry relaxation, while the systematic design keeps synthesis feasible

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

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 compound significantly improves color gamut and efficiency in blue organic light emitting devices, offering lower driving voltage, higher light emission efficiency, and extended device lifetime compared to traditional materials.

Implementation Method 1

exhibiting high color purity and long lifetime properties by minimizing Stokes shift and enhancing energy band gaps

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectStokes shift:

Implementation Method 2

exhibiting high color purity and long lifetime properties by minimizing Stokes shift and enhancing energy band gaps

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEnergy band gap:

Implementation Method 3

An organic light emission phenomenon generally refers to a phenomenon converting electrical energy to light energy using an organic material

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS11618757B2Polycyclic compound and organic light emitting element comprising same
Publication Date: 2023.04.04 LG CHEM LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a compound of Chemical Formula 1:and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.