Green fluorescent organic light-emitting device with external quantum efficiency of nearly 10%

Green fluorescent organic light-emitting device (OLED) exhibiting a high external quantum efficiency of nearly 10% has been developed. The OLED consists of simple three organic layers, using NPB, 0.8% C545T doped TPBA, and DBzA as a hole-transporting layer, an emitting layer, and an electron-transporting layer, respectively, [fluorocarbon coated indium tin oxide/NPB (60 nm)/08% C545T doped TPBA (40 nm)/DBzA (20 nm)/LiF (1 nm/Al], where NPB is 4,4(')-bis (N-phenyl-1-naphthylamino)biphenyl, C545T is 10-(2-benzothiazolyl)-1,1,7,7-tetramethyl-2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H,5H,11H-benzo[l]pyrano[6 7 8-ij]quinolizin-11-one, TPBA is 9,9('),10,10(')-tetraphenyl-2,2(')-bianthracene, and DBzA is 9,10-bis[4-(6-methylbenzothiazol-2-yl)phenyl]anthracene. The high external quantum efficiency is maintained in the wide range of current density of 2-100 mA/cm(2). The current efficiency and power efficiency of the OLED are also very high, 29.8 cd/A and 26.2 lm/W, respectively, at a current density of 20 mA/cm(2). The OLED is promising for practical use with high color purity with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage coordinates of (0.24, 0.62) and long half-lifetime of 71 h at a current density of 80 mA/cm(2) (initial luminance of 23 900 cd/m(2)). (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.