OLED Light-Emitting Layer Host-Dopant Composition for Low-Voltage Emission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) face challenges in achieving a longer lifespan, lower driving voltage, and higher efficiency, despite advancements in host and dopant materials.

Innovation Solution

The use of specific amine compounds and anthracene compounds in the light-emitting layer, where the amine compounds act as dopants and the anthracene compounds serve as hosts, enhances the OLED's performance by optimizing energy transfer and reducing operational voltage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single material is employed as the luminescent material, then the device structure is simple, but intermolecular actions cause the maximum luminescence wavelength to shift toward a longer wavelength, resulting in a reduction in color purity and light emitting efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice structureVSAvoidcolor purity and light emitting efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The luminescent material is segmented into two distinct components: a host material and a dopant material. The host material provides the structural framework and initial exciton generation, while the dopant material, with its smaller energy band gap, receives energy transfer and emits light at the desired wavelength. This segmentation prevents the intermolecular interactions that cause wavelength shifting in single-material systems, thereby maintaining color purity and light emitting efficiency without significantly increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If dopant and host materials of specific structures are used in the light-emitting layer, then efficiency and lifespan are improved, but the device complexity increases due to material selection and optimization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight emitting efficiencyVSAvoidmaterial selection and optimization
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention optimizes specific molecular parameters of the host and dopant materials, including energy band gap values, molecular weight ranges, and structural configurations. By carefully selecting materials with specific parameter ranges (e.g., dopant energy band gap smaller than host, specific molecular weight ranges), the patent achieves enhanced light emitting efficiency and extended device lifespan while managing the complexity through systematic parameter optimization rather than trial-and-error approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of manufacture

If conventional materials are used in the light-emitting layer, then the manufacturing process is straightforward, but the OLED exhibits higher driving voltage and shorter lifespan

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing processVSAvoiddriving voltage and lifespan
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The invention employs composite materials consisting of a host material and a dopant material with specific structural characteristics. The host material provides stable charge transport and exciton generation, while the dopant material, with its smaller energy band gap, enables efficient energy transfer and light emission. This composite material system achieves lower driving voltage and extended lifespan compared to conventional single-material systems, while the manufacturing process remains straightforward as it follows standard OLED fabrication procedures with the addition of the dopant to the host material.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

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

This configuration results in OLEDs with extended lifespan and improved efficiency, outperforming conventional OLEDs in terms of driving voltage and luminescence properties.

Implementation Method 1

a host-dopant system may be used as a luminescent material so as to increase the color purity and the light emitting efficiency through energy transfer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEnergy transfer: Fluorescence

Implementation Method 2

the addition of a small amount of the dopant to the host generates excitons from the light-emitting layer so that the excitons are transported to the dopant, emitting light at high efficiency

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectExciton transport: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS12010915B2Organic light-emitting diode having long lifespan, low voltage, and high efficiency property
Publication Date: 2024.06.11 SFC CO LTD
  • US12010915B2 patent drawing
  • US12010915B2 patent drawing
  • US12010915B2 patent drawing

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode and, more particularly, to an organic-light-emitting diode comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a light-emitting layer intercalated between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises at least one of the amine compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula A and at least one of the anthracene compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula B or C. The structures of Chemical Formulas A to C are the same as in the specification.