We describe aggregating perylene derivatives as light-emitting-layer (LEL) additives in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). These molecules readily form emissive aggregates when added to the LEL. In the resulting devices, the aggregates show moderate external quantum efficiencies of 0.9%–1.7%, which can be improved to 2.7%–4.0% by further adding a proper dopant. Importantly, addition of these polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons increases the half-life (t50) of undoped and doped OLEDs by 30–150 times. Thus, 11cd∕A green and 5.2cd∕A red devices are produced that have pure color, Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage 1931 2° color chromaticity coordinates (CIEx,y) 0.32, 0.63 and 0.64, 0.36, respectively, and t50 of 30 000 and 200 000h, respectively, upon operation at 40mA∕cm2. A possible link between the thickness of the emission zone and the lifetime increase is illustrated by comparing aluminum 8-hydroxyquinoline chelate (Alq3) as an LEL host versus an Alq3+dibenzo[b,k]perylene mixed host using C545T as an emissive probe. The comparison suggests that the emission zone and probably the electron-hole recombination zone are expanded for the mixed host.
Excellent performance (61 cd/A efficiency, 27% EQE, 6.2 V, 6500 K white point, 35,000 h half-life) was obtained using 2-stack hybrid tandem white OLED. This is >70% EQE improvement over the all-fluorescent tandem white resulting in >30% reduction in power consumption for a 32" AMOLED HDTV. Hybrid Tandems for lighting show , and lifetime between 70,000 and 125,000 h without outcoupling.
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