Shinji Matsuo

23.3: Distinguished Paper: Red‐Phosphorescent OLEDs Employing Bis(8‐Quinolinolato)‐Phenolato‐Aluminum(III) Complexes as Emission‐Layer Hosts

We have developed high-efficiency, long-lived organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices by introducing red phosphorescent dopants into bis(8-quinolinolato)phenolato-aluminum(III) complexes. The devices exhibited luminance efficiency of 12 cd/A at CIE color coordinates (0.65, 034). The luminance half-decay lifetime is expected to be over 30,000 hours at an initial luminance of 700 cd/m2. We have successfully incorporated these devices into commercial OLED displays.

Red‐phosphorescent OLEDs employing bis(8‐quinolinolato)phenolato‐aluminum(III) complexes as emission‐layer hosts

— We have used bis(8-quinolinolato)phenolato-aluminum complexes as emission-layer hosts in red-phosphorescent OLED devices. This enabled high-efficiency long-lived OLED devices with a simple device structure that does not require a hole-blocking layer. Devices with a red-phosphorescent dopant introduced into a noble bis(8-quinolinolato)phenolato-aluminum complex exhibited a high efficiency of 12 cd/A at CIE color coordinates (0.65, 035) and a long operating lifetime of 30,000 hours or more at an initial luminance of 700 cd/m2. Moreover, triplet-triplet annihilation was reduced in the devices because of the wide emission zone enabled by the complex and the short phosphorescent lifetime of the red-phosphorescent dopant. We have successfully incorporated these red-phosphorescent devices into commercial OLED displays.