Anthracene derivatives for stable blue-emitting organic electroluminescence devices

A class of anthracene derivative which is suitable used as emitting materials for producing efficient and stable blue emission for full color organic electroluminescence (EL) devices has been developed. Multilayer organic EL devices using these fluorescent materials as an emitting layer produced blue emissions with good chromaticity and luminous efficiency as high as 3.5 cd/A. The half life of 4000 h of blue emission EL device with initial light output 700 cd/m2 has been achieved. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.