Blue fluorescent OLED materials and their application for high-performance devices

The authors applied two technologies to improve the efficiency of fluorescent blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). First, an efficiency-enhancement layer (EEL) was introduced to boost triplet-triplet fusion (TTF). Second, new blue dopants with a higher orientation factor in the emitting layer were developed. Consequently, the external quantum efficiency (EQE) was increased up to 11.5% with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) 1931 color coordinates of (0.138, 0.092). The reported results may lead to EQEs that exceed 14% with fluorescent blue emitters.