Polycyclic Compound for OLED Performance and Lifespan

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a continuous demand for improving the performance, lifespan, and efficiency of organic light emitting devices, particularly in the development of materials for their thin film layers to enhance their light emitting capabilities and operational stability.

Innovation Solution

A novel polycyclic compound is developed that can be used as a material for various organic layers in organic light emitting devices, serving as a hole injection, hole transport, light emitting, hole blocking, or electron transport material, and can be employed in layers such as the light emitting layer, electron transport layer, or hole blocking layer, offering structural properties that enhance the device's functionality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional organic thin film materials are used, then the device structure is simple, but the performance, lifespan, and efficiency are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice performance and lifespanVSAvoidmaterial structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs composite material strategy by combining multiple functional groups (carbazole, triphenylene, dibenzofuran) within a single polycyclic compound molecule. This composite molecular structure integrates hole transport, electron transport, and light emitting capabilities into one material system, thereby improving device performance and lifespan while managing the complexity through molecular-level composition rather than multiple separate layers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The polycyclic compound of Formula 1 serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a hole injection material, hole transport material, light emitting material, hole blocking material, electron transport material, or electron injection material depending on the specific embodiment. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate materials needed in the device, improving reliability without proportionally increasing device complexity

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

2Illumination intensity

If existing polycyclic compounds are used, then the synthesis process is established, but the light emitting properties and operational stability are not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight emitting propertiesVSAvoidsynthesis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality principle by strategically placing specific functional groups at defined positions within the polycyclic core structure. The carbazole, triphenylene, and dibenzofuran groups are positioned to optimize electron-hole recombination zones and light emission characteristics, thereby enhancing illumination intensity while maintaining a systematic synthesis approach that builds on established polycyclic compound chemistry

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The invention optimizes light emitting properties by systematically varying molecular parameters such as the type and position of substituents, the degree of aromaticity, and the specific arrangement of fused rings. These parameter changes allow tuning of HOMO-LUMO energy gaps, fluorescence quantum yields, and operational stability without fundamentally changing the core synthesis methodology

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 novel polycyclic compound improves the performance and efficiency of organic light emitting devices by optimizing the light emitting properties and stability of the organic material layers, leading to better device performance and longevity.

Implementation Method 1

When voltage is applied to an organic light emitting device having such a structure, light is emitted by electrons and holes injected from the two electrodes being dissipated after the electrons and holes are bonded and make a pair in the organic thin film

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentEP3162797B1Polycyclic compound and organic light emitting device using same
Publication Date: 2021.09.01 LT MATERIALS CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a novel polycyclic compound and an organic light emitting device using the same.