Efficient electroluminescent hybridized local and charge- transfer host materials with small singlettriplet splitting to enhance exciton utilization efficiency: excited state transition configuration

A series of efficient electroluminescent materials with dual carrier transport properties shows enhanced singlet exciton utilization ((s)) due to small singlet-triplet splitting (E-ST). The strong orbital-coupling transitions of N-(4-(1-(1-(2,3-dihydrobenzo[b][1,4]dioxin-6-yl)-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)naphthalen-4-yl)phenyl)-N-phenyl benzenamine (DDPB) exhibit deep blue emission at 435 nm (CIEy, 0.07) with an external quantum efficiency of 2.01%. The electroluminescent efficiencies of 2-(1-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)naphthalen-4-yl)-1-(2,3-dihydrobenzo[b][1,4]dioxin-6-yl)-1H-phenanthro[9,10-d]imidazole (CDDPI) (L - 3992 cd m(-2); (ex) - 3.01%; (c) - 2.56 cd A(-1); (p) - 2.12 lm W-1) are higher than those of the N-(4-(1-(1-(2,3-dihydrobenzo[b][1,4]dioxin-6-yl)-H-phenanthro[9,10-d]imidazole-2-yl)naphthalen-4-yl)phenyl)-N-phenylbenzenamine (DBDPA) based device (L - 3015 cd m(-2); (ex) - 2.85%; (c) - 2.01 cd A(-1); (p) - 1.92 lm W-1). The blue emissive materials CDDPI and DBDPA are used as a host to construct green and red phosphorescent OLEDs: the green device based on CDDPI:Ir(ppy)(3) exhibits higher efficiencies (L - 8812 cd m(-2); (ex) - 19.0%; (c) - 27.5 cd A(-1); (p) - 33.0 lm W-1) at 2.7 V and the red device based on CDDPI:Ir(MQ)(2)(acac) exhibits a maximum luminance of 39661 cd m(-2) with excellent EL efficiencies [(ex) - 19.2%; (c) - 27.9 cd A(-1); (p) - 29.2 lm W-1; CIE (0.64, 0.34)] compared with those of the DBDPA:Ir(MQ)(2)(acac) based device [L - 37621 cd m(-2); (ex) - 18.5%; (c) - 25.2 cd A(-1); (p) - 25.8 lm W-1; CIE (0.64, 0.34)].