Low‐molecular‐weight white organic‐light‐emitting‐devices using direct color mixing method

Abstract

In order to achieve white emission from organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), five distinct structures were fabricated and tested. The white emission was obtained using two different color‐emitting materials (yellow from rubrene‐doped Alq₃ and blue from DPVBi) with or without a carrier‐blocking layer. For enhancing the red emission, two types of devices with three‐color emitting materials were fabricated. The white emission, close to the CIE coordinate of (0.3,0.3), was achieved by using two blocking layers as well that as without a blocking layer. This paper covers the subject of controlling the location of exciton recombination zone. It has been found that there is a trade‐off in that the devices with three color emitting layers do not show as much luminescence efficiency compared to those with two color emitting layers, but rather, show distinct red emission in the resultant emission spectra. The highest power efficiency was measured to be 1.15 lm/W at 2,000 cd/m² for a structure with two color‐emitting layers.

Keywords:

• white light emitting device
• carrier blocking
• exciton recombination