Organic Compound for OLED Emission Efficiency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current organic light emitting diode (OLED) display devices face challenges in achieving improved thermal stability, emission efficiency, and lifetime due to the limitations of single material-based emitting layers, which affect color purity and electrical properties.

Innovation Solution

An organic compound with a fused aromatic structure and directly or indirectly connected amine groups is applied to the emitting layer, enhancing thermal stability and hole transport properties, and used as a host or dopant to improve emission efficiency and lifetime.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single material is used for the emitting layer, then the device structure is simple, but the color purity and emission efficiency are deteriorated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemitting layer structureVSAvoidcolor purity
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs composite materials by combining host materials and dopant materials in the emitting layer. The host material (e.g., spirobifluorene derivatives) provides the structural framework while the dopant material (e.g., triphenylamine derivatives) provides the emission centers, achieving both structural integrity and high color purity through material composition rather than structural complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Ease of manufacture

If a single material is used for the emitting layer, then the fabrication process is simplified, but the emission efficiency and lifetime are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefabrication processVSAvoidemission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses composite materials with specific functional分工: the host material provides excellent thermal stability and charge transport, while the dopant material provides high quantum efficiency emission. This functional division in material composition achieves high emission efficiency without complicating the fabrication process, as the layers are formed using standard vacuum deposition techniques

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Adaptability or versatility

If conventional organic materials are used in the emitting layer, then the material selection is straightforward, but the thermal stability is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematerial selectionVSAvoidthermal stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by selecting host materials with specifically engineered molecular structures (spirobifluorene derivatives) that possess inherent high thermal stability parameters. The materials are designed with high glass transition temperatures and stable molecular configurations, changing the thermal parameters from conventional organic materials to advanced thermally stable compounds while maintaining ease of deposition

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 organic compound improves emission efficiency, lifetime, and color purity by providing excellent thermal stability and hole transport properties when used in OLEDs, leading to enhanced performance in OLED display devices.

Implementation Method 1

An organic compound where a glass transition temperature and a thermal stability are improved

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThermal stability:

Implementation Method 2

enhancing thermal stability and hole transport properties

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHole transport: Conduction (electrical)

Implementation Method 3

a light is emitted due to extinction of an exciton in an emitting layer. When an electron and a hole are injected into the emitting layer of an organic material between an electron injecting electrode (cathode) and a hole injecting electrode (anode), a pair of the electron and the hole form the exciton and the light is emitted from the emitting layer while the exciton transitions to a ground state

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentEP3249707B1Organic compound and light emitting diode and organic light emitting diode display device using the same
Publication Date: 2023.11.22 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to an organic compound, a light emitting diode (100, 200, 300, 400) and an organic light emitting diode display device (500) using the same. The organic compound is represented by a following chemical formula 1. Said organic compound has the advantages in the thermal stability, the emission property, the color purity, the hole transport property and the hole movement property, and thus the lifetime, the emission efficiency and the emission property of the LED using the same are improved.