Highly Efficient Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Using New Fluorescent Host Materials Based on Naphthalenes

The naphthalene-based blue materials 4,4′-(Dinaphthalen-2-yl)-1,1′-binaphthyl (DNBN) and 1,4-(Dinaphthalen-2-yl)-naphthalene (DNN) were designed and synthesized for OLEDs. A device (non-doped) employing DNN as the emitter exhibited a maximum luminance, luminous efficiency, and external quantum efficiency of 1120 cd/m2, 1.40 cd/A, and 3.83%, respectively. Moreover, its CIE coordinates (0.152, 0.069) are very close to the NTSC blue standard of (0.14, 0.08). In order to improve EL efficiencies, these materials were used as the blue host materials for the blue dopants PFVtPh and PCVtPh. A device 1b (PFVtPh-doped) showed high EL efficiencies of 5.24 cd/A, 2.75 lm/W, and 3.82% at 20 mA/cm2.