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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4896127
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- European Community Seventh Framework Programme [FP7 267995]
- European Social Fund
- free state of Saxony through the OrganoMechanics project
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We investigate the properties of N,N'-[(Diphenyl-N,N'-bis) 9,9,-dimethyl-fluoren-2-yl]-benzidine (BF-DPB) as hole transport material (HTL) in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and compare BF-DPB to the commonly used HTLs N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(4-methoxyphenyl)-benzidine (MeO-TPD), 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N'-di-p-methylphenylamino)-9,9'-spirobifluorene (Spiro-TTB), and N, N'-di(naphtalene-1-yl)-N,N'-diphenylbenzidine (NPB). The influence of 2,2'-(perfluoronaphthalene-2,6-diylidene)dimalononitrile (F6-TCNNQ p-dopant) concentration in BF-DPB on the operation voltage and efficiency of red and green phosphorescent OLEDs is studied; best results are achieved at 4 wt. % doping. Without any light extraction structure, BF-DPB based red (green) OLEDs achieve a luminous efficacy of 35.1 lm/W (74.0 lm/W) at 1000 cd/m(2) and reach a very high brightness of 10 000 cd/m(2) at a very low voltage of 3.2 V (3.1 V). We attribute this exceptionally low driving voltage to the high ionization potential of BF-DPB which enables more efficient hole injection from BF-DPB to the adjacent electron blocking layer. The high efficiency and low driving voltage lead to a significantly lower luminous efficacy roll-off compared to the other compounds and render BF-DPB an excellent HTL material for highly efficient OLEDs. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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