Highly efficient phosphorescent polymer OLEDs fabricated by screen printing

  • Lee, D.H. (Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Choi, J.S. (Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Cho, S.M. (Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Published : 2007.08.27

Abstract

We demonstrate the use of screen printing in the fabrication of highly efficient phosphorescent polymer organic-light-emitting devices (OLEDs) based on a green-emitting $Ir(ppy)_3$ and a host polymer PVK. We incorporate PBD in the polymer host as an electron-transporting dopant and ${\alpha}-NPD$ as a hole transporting dopant. The best screen printed single-layer device exhibits very high peak luminous efficiency of 63 cd/A at a relatively high operating voltage of 17.1 V at the luminance of $650\;cd/m^2$. We observed the highest luminance of $21,000\;Cd/m^2$ at 35V. Due to the high operating voltage, despite of the high peak luminous efficiency the peak power efficiency was found to be 12.2 lm/W at the luminance of $470\;cd/m^2$ (15.9 V).

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