All Non-Dopant RGB Composing White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Yeh, Shi-Jay (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Chen, Hung-Yang (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Wu, Min-Fei (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Chan, Li-Hsin (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Chiang, Chih-Long (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Yeh, Hsiu-Chih (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Chen, Chin-Ti (Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica) ;
  • Lee, Jiun-Haw (Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

All non-dopant white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have been realized by using solid state highly fluorescent red bis(4-(N-(1- naphthyl)phenylamino)phenyl)fumaronitrile (NPAFN) and amorphous bipolar blue light-emitting 2-(4- diphenylamino)phenyl-5-(4-triphenylsilyl)phenyl- 1,3,4-oxadiazole (TPAOXD), together with well known green fluorophore tris(8- hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum $(Alq_3)$. The fabrication of multilayer WOLEDs did not involve the hard-tocontrol doping process. Two WOLEDs, Device I and II, different in layer thickness of $Alq_3$, 30 and 15 nm, respectively, emitted strong electroluminescence (EL) as intense as $25,000\;cd/m^2$. For practical solid state lighting application, EL intensity exceeding $1,000\;cd/m^2$ was achieved at current density of $18-19\;mA/cm^2$ or driving voltage of 6.5-8 V and the devices exhibited external quantum efficiency $({\eta}_{ext})$ of $2.6{\sim}2.9%$ corresponding to power efficiency $({\eta}_P)$ of $2.1{\sim}2.3\;lm/W$ at the required brightness.

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