Development of OLED with high stability and luminance efficiency by co-doping methods for full color displays

We propose co-doping systems in emission layers of red and green organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The luminance-voltage, luminous and power efficiency-voltage characteristics, operational stability, and the energy bands of materials were measured. In red OLED devices, we propose an emitting assist (EA) dopant for better luminance efficiency and power efficiency with pure red emission and improved operational stability. The EA dopant (rubrene) did not emit itself but assisted the energy transfer from a host (Alq) to an emitting dopant (DCJTB). By doping rubrene, the luminance efficiency increased from 1.7 to 4.3 cd/A (from 0.6 to 1.9 lm/W) with chromaticity of (x=0.64, y=0.36) unchanged. An improved lifetime was also observed. In green OLED devices, we introduced hole transporting material (NPB) into an emission layer for better charge injection balance. The green devices with the emitting dopant (C545T) achieved the luminance efficiency of 8.5 cd/A compared with 6.9 cd/A without NPB. We studied the co-doping methods and use of this approach for active-matrix full color display. The power consumption of white emission at 100 cd/m/sup 2/ was reduced by 32%. The effectiveness of these co-doping methods was demonstrated for practical applications.