Highly efficient solution-processed red organic light-emitting diodes with long-side-chained triplet emitter

Newly synthesized red It complexes tris[2-(4-n-hexyl-phenyl)quinoline]iridium(III) and tris[(4-n-hexylphenyl)isoquinoline)]iridium(III) with long alkyl side chains are utilized to demonstrate the high efficiency multi-layer solution-processed red organic light-emitting diodes. Solubilities of these triplet emitters are high which enable them to be uniformly dispersed in the polymer host. Blade coating method is utilized to prepare organic multi-layers without mutual dissolution between different layers. 17 cd/A current efficiency, 10 lm/W power efficiency, and 8.8% external quantum efficiency can be achieved for the device with CsF/Al cathode. 10,000 cd/m(2) is reached at 10 V. Similar quantum efficiency is also achieved with an electron-transport layer and LiF/Al cathode. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.