Organic Light Emitting Device Host-Guest Composite Layer

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for organic light emitting devices with improved driving voltage, efficiency, and lifetime, as existing devices face challenges in optimizing these parameters effectively.

Innovation Solution

The organic light emitting device incorporates a light emitting layer comprising specific compounds represented by Chemical Formulas 1 and 2, which are designed to enhance efficiency and reduce driving voltage, featuring a structure with an anode, cathode, and a light emitting layer containing these compounds to improve the overall performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Power

If conventional organic materials are used in the light emitting layer, then the device structure is simple, but the driving voltage is high and efficiency is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving voltageVSAvoidmaterial structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs composite materials by combining a host compound (Chemical Formula 1) with a guest compound (Chemical Formula 2) in the light emitting layer. This host-guest composite system enables improved charge transport and exciton utilization, resulting in reduced driving voltage and enhanced efficiency while maintaining reasonable device structure complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes parameter changes by systematically varying molecular structures of the organic compounds (adjusting substituents R1-R4, aromatic groups Ar1-Ar4, and connecting groups L1-L5) to optimize electronic properties. This allows tuning of HOMO-LUMO levels, charge mobility, and exciton binding energies to achieve lower driving voltage and higher efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If conventional organic materials are used in the light emitting layer, then the manufacturing process is simple, but efficiency is low and lifetime is short

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice efficiencyVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs parameter changes by optimizing molecular parameters of the organic compounds, including substituent types (R1-R4), aromatic group configurations (Ar1-Ar4), and connecting group structures (L1-L5). These parameter optimizations enhance charge transport efficiency and exciton utilization without significantly complicating the vacuum deposition manufacturing process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The host-guest composite material system facilitates efficient energy transfer and charge recombination, improving device efficiency. The composite structure can be deposited using conventional vacuum deposition techniques, maintaining ease of manufacture while achieving superior performance characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Duration of action of stationary object

If conventional organic materials are used in the light emitting layer, then the device structure is simple, but lifetime characteristics are poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice lifetimeVSAvoidmaterial composition complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of stationary objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs composite materials with a host compound (Chemical Formula 1) and guest compound (Chemical Formula 2) system. This composite approach improves device lifetime by enhancing charge transport efficiency and reducing exciton-polaron annihilation, while the molecular structures maintain reasonable complexity for vacuum deposition manufacturing.

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

The use of these compounds in the light emitting layer results in improved efficiency and reduced driving voltage, leading to enhanced lifetime characteristics for the organic light emitting device.

Implementation Method 1

The organic light emitting device uses the organic light emitting phenomenon where electric energy is converted into light energy by using an organic material. When voltage is applied between electrodes, holes are injected from anode and electrons from cathode into the organic material layer, forming excitons that emit light when falling to ground state.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS20240147853A1Organic light emitting device
Publication Date: 2024.05.02 LG CHEM LTD
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AI summary

An organic light emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, the light emitting layer including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and having improved driving voltage, efficiency and lifetime.