A strategy to increase phosphorescent efficiency without perturbing emission color for benzothiazole-containing iridium phosphors

作者：Liu, Di^*; Yao, Ruijuan; Dong, Ruizhi; Jia, Fengju; Fu, Min

来源：Dyes and Pigments, 2017, 145: 528-537.

DOI：10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.06.048

• Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
• Iridium complexes
• Orange phosphorescence
• Benzothiazole based ligand
• Triflruoromethyl

A series of bis(2-phenylbenzothiozolato-N,C-2')iridium(acetylacetonate) derivatives are developed for use in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs). Fluorine (-F), trifluoromethyl (-CF3), Nphenylcarbazole-3-yl (-Cz) and diphenylamino (-Ph2N) are incorporated at the 5- or 7-site of the benzothiazole ring to adjust the properties and performance of the complexes. The emitting colors of these iridium phosphors are almost independent of the substituents and the substitution positions, but -F or -CF3 always resulted in increased phosphorescence quantum yields and decreased lifetimes in photoluminescence. Furthermore, the 5-F/CF3-substituted iridium complexes exhibited higher efficiencies than their analogues 7-site isomers in OLEDs. In particular the device based on 1 exhibits a maximum luminance efficiency of 64 cd A(-1) (213%). Theoretical calculations were performed to interpret the negligible color tuning effect.

• 出版日期2017-10
• 单位精细化工国家重点实验室; 大连理工大学