Platinum Complexes for Stable OLED Light Emission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current organic and organometallic materials used in optical and electro-optical devices suffer from poor processing ability, inefficient emission or absorption, and less than ideal stability, limiting their performance in devices such as OLEDs and solar cells.

Innovation Solution

Development of platinum complexes with specific chemical structures that exhibit improved photoabsorption and photoemission properties, allowing for their use as functional materials in optical devices, including OLEDs, solar cells, and luminescent displays, with tunable emission and absorption profiles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If current organic and organometallic materials are used in optical and electro-optical devices, then device fabrication can proceed with existing materials, but the materials exhibit poor processing ability, inefficient emission or absorption, and less than ideal stability

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovestabilityVSAvoidprocessing ability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent modifies the chemical structure of organometallic compounds by changing parameters such as ligand types (carbazole, triazole, pyrazole derivatives), metal centers (Ir(III), Pt(II)), and substituent groups to optimize both stability and processability. Specific structural modifications include introducing electron-donating or electron-withdrawing groups, adjusting molecular weight, and controlling molecular geometry to achieve desired balance between stability and processing characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs composite organometallic materials combining different metal centers with various organic ligands to achieve synergistic effects. Examples include Ir(III) complexes with carbazole ligands, Pt(II) complexes with triazole ligands, and mixed-ligand systems that combine multiple functional groups to simultaneously improve stability, emission efficiency, and processing ability through combined properties of constituent components

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 platinum complexes demonstrate enhanced performance in optical devices by offering improved absorption and emission efficiency and stability, enabling the creation of more efficient and reliable light-emitting and solar energy harvesting devices.

Implementation Method 1

platinum complexes which are capable of absorbing and/or emitting light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoabsorption: Absorption (EM radiation)

Implementation Method 2

platinum complexes which are capable of absorbing and/or emitting light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoemission: Luminescence

Data Source

PatentEP2417217B1Synthesis of four coordinated platinum complexes and their applications in light emitting devices thereof
Publication Date: 2017.11.22 THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIV OF ARIZONA
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AI summary

Platinum complexes that exhibit photoabsorption and photoemission, methods of making such complexes, and applications thereof are disclosed, including optical devices comprising the complexes.