Issue 45, 2018

The development of a new approach toward lanthanide-based OLED fabrication: new host materials for Tb-based emitters

Abstract

To develop the recently proposed approach toward host selection for lanthanide-based emitters, four phosphine oxides PO = PO1–PO4 were investigated which are able to both increase the electron mobility and to sensitize terbium luminescence. New highly soluble and brightly luminescent terbium complexes TbCl3(PO)·H2O and Tb(pobz)3(PO)·(CH3)2CO (pobz = phenoxybenzoate) with a quantum yield of up to 100% were synthesized and thoroughly characterized. To study the electroluminescence properties of these materials, a series of solution-processed OLED devices were fabricated and their heterostructures were selected based on the HOMO and LUMO energies of PO1–PO4, which were carefully assessed by the combination of DFT and TDDFT methods. Thus, the effectiveness of the proposed approach was proved, and the influence of the anionic ligand was shown. The maximum OLED luminance reached 75 Cd m−2, which is a high value for solution-processed OLEDs based on terbium complexes.

Graphical abstract: The development of a new approach toward lanthanide-based OLED fabrication: new host materials for Tb-based emitters

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Jul 2018
Accepted
19 Oct 2018
First published
19 Oct 2018

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 16350-16357

The development of a new approach toward lanthanide-based OLED fabrication: new host materials for Tb-based emitters

A. N. Aslandukov, V. V. Utochnikova, D. O. Goriachiy, A. A. Vashchenko, D. M. Tsymbarenko, M. Hoffmann, M. Pietraszkiewicz and N. P. Kuzmina, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 16350 DOI: 10.1039/C8DT02911C

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