Oxadiazole Metal Complex for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Jingli Wang, G. E. Jabbour, E. A. Mash, J. Anderson, Y. Zhang, P. A. Lee, Neal R. Armstrong, N. Peyghambarian, Bernard Kippelen

Advanced Materials · 1999 · 98 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

High electron mobility in organic thin films has in general been difficult to achieve. Oxadiazole derivatives are among the most successful electron conducting/hole blocking materials employed in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), the aluminum–oxadiazole complex presented here, tris(2-(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-yl)phenonate) aluminum (AlPOP), being no exception. OLEDs based on AlPOP are reported to exhibit a strong blue emission with high external efficiency and brightness and excellent shelf lifetime stability.