5-Membered Heterocycle Compound for OLED Efficiency and Color Purity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current organic electronic devices face inefficiencies and stability issues due to the limitations of materials used in their organic material layers, particularly in light emitting and charge transport layers, which affect luminescence efficiency and color purity.

Innovation Solution

A novel compound with a 5-membered heterocycle is developed, which can function as a hole injection, hole transport, light emission, and electron transport material, enhancing the efficiency, color purity, and lifetime of organic light emitting diodes by being used as a host material for various phosphorescent dopants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If conventional organic materials are used in the organic material layer, then the device structure is simple, but the luminescence efficiency and color purity are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice structureVSAvoidluminescence efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs composite organic materials comprising multiple functional components (host material, guest material, charge transport materials) to achieve high luminescence efficiency and color purity. The composite material system allows optimization of both efficiency and color characteristics while maintaining device structure simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Device complexity

If conventional organic materials are used in the organic material layer, then the device structure is simple, but the color purity is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice structureVSAvoidcolor purity
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by using specific host and guest material combinations with tailored energy levels and molecular structures. The host material provides a rigid environment while the guest material emits specific wavelengths, achieving high color purity through localized molecular design rather than changing the overall device structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If a single light emitting material is used, then the device structure is simple, but the light emitting efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice structureVSAvoidlight emitting efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses composite light emitting systems with host and guest materials where the host provides structural stability and the guest provides efficient luminescence. This composite approach achieves high light emitting efficiency by separating the structural and luminescent functions into different material components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

4Productivity

If stable and efficient organic material layer materials are used, then the luminescence efficiency and color purity are improved, but the material development complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveluminescence efficiencyVSAvoidmaterial development
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs universal host materials that can accommodate various guest materials for different colors. The host material structure is designed to be versatile, supporting multiple guest molecules with different luminescence properties, thereby reducing material development complexity while maintaining high efficiency and color purity across different device applications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

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 luminous efficiency, color purity, and the lifetime of organic light emitting diodes, making it suitable for a wide range of colors and applications.

Implementation Method 1

excitons which are generated in the light emitting layer are transported to the dopant, thus emitting a light having a high efficiency

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEnergy transfer:

Implementation Method 2

a phosphorescent material from electronic triplet excited states according to their light emitting mechanism

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhosphorescence: Phosphorescence

Data Source

PatentUS10991890B2Compound containing a 5-membered heterocycle and organic light-emitting diode using same, and terminal for same
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 DUK SAN NEOLUX
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AI summary

Disclosed are a novel-structural compound including a 5-membered heterocycle, an organic electronic device using the same, and a terminal thereof.