GB2515182A - Organic light-emitting device and method - Google Patents

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GB2515182A
GB2515182A GB1408305.9A GB201408305A GB2515182A GB 2515182 A GB2515182 A GB 2515182A GB 201408305 A GB201408305 A GB 201408305A GB 2515182 A GB2515182 A GB 2515182A
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Martina Pintani
Michael Cass
Simon King
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Abstract

A composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting polymer mixed with a triplet accepting oligomer or polymer comprising a repeat structure of formula (IIb): (TAU-Spacer)m (IIb) wherein TAU represents a triplet accepting unit, Spacer is a spacer group and m is at least 2. The composition may be used in the light-emitting layer of an organic light-emitting device. Also shown is a method of forming an organic light emitting device with the composition.

Description

ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD
This application claims priority from UK patent application no. 1010741.5 filed on 25 June 2010. UK patent application no. 1010742.3 filed on 25 June 2010, UK patent application no. 1010745.6 filed on 25 June 2010, UK patent application no. 1010743.1 fled on 25 June 2010 and UK patent application no. 1101642.5 filed on 31 January 2011. The contents of each aforementioned priority-forming application am incorporated herein in their entirety by reference.
Summary of the Invention
This invention relates to organic light emitting compositions. devices containing the same, and methods of making said devices.
Background of the Invention
Electronic devices comprising active organic materials are attracting increasing attention for use in devices such as organic light emitting diodes, organic photovoltaic devices, organic photosensors, organic transistors and memory array devices. Devices comprising organic materials oiler benefits such as ow weight. ow power consumption and flexibility.
Moreover, use ol soluble organic materials allows use ol scñution processing in device manufacture, for example inkjet printing or spin-coating.
A typical organic light-emissive device ("OLED") is fabricated on a &ass or plastic substrate coated with a transparent anode such as indium-tin-oxide ("ITO"). A layer of a thin film of at least one electroluminescent organic material is provided over the first electrode. Finally, a cathode is provided over the layer of electroluminescent organic material. Charge transporting, charge injecting or charge blocking layers may be provided between the anode and the electrohiniinescent layer and! or between the cathode and the electroluminescent layer.
In operation, holes are injected into the device through the anode and deetrons are injected into the device through the cathode. The holes and electrons combine in the organic electroluminescent layer to foim excitons which then undergo radiative decay to give light.
In WO9O!13 148 the organic light-emissive material is a conjugated polymer such as poly(phenylenevinylene). In US 4,539,507 the organic light-emissive material is of the class known as small molecule materials, such as tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminium ( "A1q3" ).
These materials electroluminesce by radiative decay of singlet excitons (fluorescence) however spin statistics dictate that up to 75% of excitons are triplet excitons which undergo non-radiative decay, i. e. quantum efficiency may be as low as 25% for fluorescent OLEDs-see, for example. Chem. Phys. Lett., 1993,210. 61, Nature (London), 2001,409, 494, Synth. Met., 2002,125, 55 and references therein.
It has been postulated that the presence of triplet excitons, which may have relatively long-lived triplet excited states, can be detrimental to OLED lifetime as a result of triplet-triplet or triplet-singlet interactions ("lifetime" as used herein in the context of OLED lifetime means the length of time taken for the uminanee of the OLED at constant current to fall by 50% from an initial luminance value, and "lifetime" as used herein in the context of lifetime of a tnplct excited state means the half-life of a triplet exciton).
WO 2005/043640 discloses that blending a perylene derivative with an organic light-emissive material in an organic light-emissive device can give a small increase in the lifetime of the device. However, while higher concentrations of perylenc derivative give greater improvements in lifetime this results in a significant red-shift in the emission spectrum.
US 2007/145886 discloses an OLED compnsing a triplet-quenching material to prevent or reduce triplet-triplet or trip'et-singlet interactions.
US 2005/095456 discloses an OLED having a light-enritting layer comprising a host material, a dye or pigment and an additive exhibiting an absorption edge of which energy level is higher than that of an absorption edge of the dye or the pigment OLEDs have great potential for display and lighting applications. However, there remains a need to improve performance of these devices.
Summary of the Invention
In a first aspect the invention provides a composition comprising a Iluorescent light-emitting polymer and a triplet-accepting unit.
In one optional arrangement, the triplet-accepting unit is a triplet accepting compound mixed with the hght emitting polymer and any other component or components of the composition.
In another optional arrangement, the triplet-accepting unit is bound to the light-emitting polymer or to any other component or components of the composition.
Optionally, the composition comprises at least one of a hole transporting material and an electron transporting material and wherein the triplet-accepting unit is bound to at least one of the hole transporting material, the electron transporting material and the light-emitting polymer.
Optionally, the triplet-accepting unit is bound to the light emitting polymer.
Optionally, the light-emitting polymer comprises a light-emitting repeat unit and at least one of repeat units providing electron transport and repeat units providing hole transport, wherein the triplet-accepting material is bound to at least one of the light-emitting repeat unit, the repeat unit providing electron transport and the repeat unit providing hole transport.
Optionally, the triplet-accepting unit is a repeat unit in the main chain of the light-emitting polymer or a side-group or end-group of the light-emitting polymer.
Optionally, the triplet-accepting unit is substituted with one or more solubilising groups.
Optionally, the soluhilising group is selected from alkyl and alkoxy.
Optionally, the light-emitting polymer comprises arylamine repeat units.
Optionally, the arylamine repeat units are units of formifia (V): Ar1_(FJ_Ar2 n (V) wherein Ar' and Ar2 are optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl groups. n is greater than or equal to 1, preferably 1 or 2, and R is H or a substituent.
Optionally, the polymer comprises aryl or hcteroaryl repeat units.
Optionally, the polymer comprises repeat units of formula (IV): (IV) wherein R' and R2 arc independently H or a substitucnt, and R' and R2 may be linked to form a ring.
Optionally, the triplet-accepting material is present in an amount of at least 0.1 mol %.
Optionally, the composition has a photoluminescent light emission peak wavelength in the range of 400 to 500 nm.
Optionally, the triplet-accepting unit does not comprise a perylene.
In a second aspect thc invcntion providcs a formulation comprising a solvent and a composition according to the first aspect.
In a third aspect thc invention provides an organic light-emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-emitting layer between the anode and cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a composition according to the first aspect.
In a fourth aspect the invention provides a method of forming an organic light-emitting device according to the third aspect, the method comprising the steps of depositing the formulation acconJing to the second aspect and evaporating the solvent.
In a fifth aspect the invention provides use of a unit for acceptance of triplet excitons generated by a light-emitting polymer in a composition comprising the triplet-accepting unit and the light-emitting polymer.
The triplet-accepting unit and light-emitting polymer may be as described with reference to the first aspect of the invention.
Optionally according to the fifth aspect, the triplet-accepting unit is physically mixed with the light-emitting polymer.
Optionally according to the fifth aspect, the triplet-accepting unit is chemically bound to the light-emitting polymer.
Optionally according to the fifth aspect, the triplet-accepting unit quenches triplet excitons generated by the light-emitting polymer.
Optionally according to the fifth aspect, the triplet accepting unit mediates triplet-triplet annihilation of triplet cxcitons transferred from the light emitting polymer to the triplet-accepting unit.
It will be appreciated that the invention in its first aspect relates to a composition wherein the triplet-accepting unit emits substantially no light. The excited singlet state energy level') of the light-emitting polymer is no higher than, and preferably lower than, the corresponding energy level of triplet-accepting unit in order to prevent any substantial transfer of singlet excitons from the energy level of the light-emitting polymer to the levd of the triplet-accepting material.
"Triplet accepting unit" as used herein means a unit capable oF receiving triplet excitons from the light emitting polymer. In order to function efficiently, the tnplet accepting unit has a triplet excited state energy level T1 that is lower in energy than that of the light-emitting unit.
Brief Description of the Drawings
Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of triplet quenching; Figure 2 is a schematic illustration of a first triplet-triplet annihilation mechanism; Figure 3 illustrates a second triplet-triplet annihilation mechanism; Figure 4 illustrates an organic light-emitting device according to an example of the invention; Figure 5 is a graph of external quantum efficiency vs voltage for an exemplary device and a comparative device; Figure 6 is a graph illustrating triplet density for an exemplary device and a comparative device; Figure 7 is a graph of time resolved electroluminescence; and Figure 8 is a graph of external quantum efficiency vs time for an exemplary dcvice and a comparative device.
Detailed Description of the Invention
The present inventors have identified a number of pathways by which tr plet excitons may be caused to undergo decay in order to reduce or eliminate decay by pathways that cause a drop in device lifetime. This includes pathways in which triplet excitons decay non-radiatively by a quenching process and pathways in which triplet excitons undergo triplet-triplet annihilation, resulting in delayed fluorescence that can provide for better device efficiency as compared to non-radiative quenching pathways.
Triplet quenching Figure 1 illustrates a first energy transfer mechanism for an exemp'ary OLED. For die avoidance of any doubt energy evel diagrams herein, including Figure 1. are not drawn to any scale. Figure 1 illustrates energy transfer for an OLED provided with a light emitting polymer having a singlet excited state energy level S and a singlet ground state energy level 5on* Singlet excitons having energy Sin decay by emission of fluorescent light hv, illustrated by the sollid arrow between Si h and SUE in Figure 1. Triplet-triplet exciton interactions or triplet-singlet exciton interactions may create "super-excited" states on the light-emitting polymer. Without wishing to he hound by any theory, it is believed that formation of these highly energetic "super-excited" states on the light emitting polymer may he detrimental to operational lifetime of the polymer. However, by providing a triplet accepting unit having an excited triplet state energy level T1p, that is sower than T111, it is possible for triplet excitons to be transferred for quenching to the triplet accepting unit, the alternative of radiative decay from T111 to Sos, illustrated by a dotted line in Figure 1, being a spin-forbidden process. Si and Ti levels can be measured from the fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra respectively.
The triplet accepting unit of this example has a singlet excited state energy level 51A that is higher than the singlet excited state energy level S111 in order to substantially or completely prevent transfer of singlet excitons from Sm to S1A Preferably. S1A is at least kT higher in energy than SiF in order to prevent any substantial hack-transfer of excitons. Likewise, TiE is preferably at least kT higher in energy than T1A. Although it may be preferable for energy level S IA to be greater than Sin, it will be appreciated that this is not essential in order for triplet absorption to occur.
Triplet-triplet annihilation Figure 2 illustrates a second energy transfer mechanism for an exemplary OLED.
According to this embodiment, triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA), caused by an interaction between two triplet-accepting units, results in a triplet-triplet annihilated singlet cxciton having an energy of up to 2 x TIA, wherein TIA represents the triplet excited state energy level of the triplet-accepting material. This singlet exciton. formed on a first of the two triplet-accepting units, has energy level S1IA that is higher in energy than 51A and and so it may transfer to SIA and then to from which light. hv may be emitted as delayed fluorescence. The triplet exciton on the second of the two triplet-accepting units may decay to the ground state TOA.
Initially. the triplet exciton formed at TiE is transferred to T1A. By providing a trip'et-accepting material having energy level TIA that is lower than Tie. rapid transfer of excitons from TIE to Ti A may occur. This transfer is relatively rapid compared to the rate of decay of triplet excitons from T1 to 50E' illustrated by a dotted arrow in Figure 1, which is a spin-forbidden process. The energy gap between TiF and T1A is preferaHy greater than kT in order to avoid back-transfer of excitons from IA to TiE. Likewise, the energy gap between S IA and S is preferably greater than kT in order to avoid back-transfer of excitons from S i to S1A.
A pathway for decay of the triplet exciton on IA in competition with triplet-triplet annihilation is the non-radiative (quenching) pathway to SOA described above with reference to Figure 1. A number of measures may be taken to maximise the probability of TTA rather than decay to SOA, in particular: i) The triplet-absorbing material may be selected such that triplet excitons on TIA have a relatively long lifetime Tm. A relatively long lifetime not only means that the rate of decay to SDA is relatively slow but also that the likelihood of TTA is relatively high.
ii) The concentration of triplet-absorbing material in the light-emitting layer may be relatively high, for example greater than 1 mol %, for example in the range of 1-10 mol %.
iii) Two or more triplet-accepting materials may he provided in close proximity, for example as described below with reference to units of formula (II).
Each of these measures may he used alone or in combination.
Figure 3 illustrates a third energy transfer mechanism for an exemplary OLED.
In this case. triplet-tripkt annihilation occurs between the triplet exeiton of energy TIA located on the triplet accepting triplet-accepting unit and the triplet exciton of energy T1 located on the light-emitting polymer. It will he appreciated that this results in a tripkt-triplet annihilated singlet exciton (TTAS) having an energy of up to TiE + T1A. This singlet exciton's energy level of 5nA is higher in than that of and so it may transfer its energy to and from there to S in from which light hv may be enritted as delayed fluorescence.
In Figures 2 and 3, although it may be preferable for energy level S1A to be greater than Sib, it will be appreciated that this is not essential in order for triplet absorption to occur.
Without wishing to he hound by any theory, it is believed that avoiding lormation of super-excited states on the light-emitting polymer formed during OLED driving may improve device lifetime. Moreover, by utilising a triplet accepting unit to generate TTA to produce stable delayed fluorescence it is possible to improve efficiency as compared to a device in which triplet excitons are quenched (as illustrated iii Figure 1) or as compared to a device in which there is no triplet accepting unit wherein intensity of delayed fluorescence may drop sharply following initial OLED driving..
It will be appreciated that it is possible for two or all three of the triplet-quenching mechanism and the two TTA mechanisms described above to occur within the same device, and that the amount of delayed fluorescence from each of the TTA two mechanisms will depend on factors such as the concentration of light emitting material, the concentration of tnplct accepting units and the excited state lifetime of triplet excitons on the light emitting unit and the triplet accepting unit. Measures described above with reference to Figure 2 may be employed to increase the probability of TTA.
The rate constant for transfer of triplet excitons from the light-emitting polymer to the triplet-accepting material maybe selected so as to he greater than the rate constant for quenching ol triplet excitons.
Light emitted from light-emitting compositions of the invention may include delayed fluorescence as described above, as well as fluorescence arising directly from recombination of holes and electrons on the light-emitting material ("prompt fluorescence").
The skilled person will be aware of methods to deternilne the presence of delayed fluorescence in light emitted from a light-emitting composition, for example by measuring light emission from a light-emitting composition following prompt fluorescence.
In the case of an OLED comprising tTie light-emitting composition, the delayed flucrescence can originate either from a TTA process, or from rccomhination of trapped charges with relatively long lifetimes. The TTA process can be distinguished from the trapped charge recombination process by applying a short spike of negative bias whilst measuring the intensity of the delayed fluorescence as described in detail by Popovic. Z.D. & Aziz. H. Delayed electroluminescence in small mokcule based organic light emitting diodes: evidence
S
for triplet-triplet annihilation and recombination centre mediated light generation mechanism.
J. Appi. Phy. 98, 0135 10-5 (2005). If the negative bias has no lasting effect on the intensity of the delayed fluorescence. TTA is indicated (as opposed to non-prompt fluorescence arising from recombination of trapped charges where the delayed fluorescence is reduced after removal of the bias).
Triplet-accepting unit The triplet-accepting unit as used may be a compound that is chemically unbound to, but physically mixed with, the light-emitting polymer and any other components of the light-emitting composition. Alternatively, the triplet-accepting unit may he hound, in particular covalently bound, to a component of the composition directly or through a spacer group.
In the case where the triplet-accepting unit is Nended with the light-emitting polymer, the unit is preferably substituted with solubilising groups.
Exemplary triplet-accepting compounds include aromatic or heteroaromatic compounds compnsing one or more mono-or polycyclic rings, and optionally including one or more alkenyl or alkynyl groups, for example polyaromatic hydrocarbons such as anthracenes and anthanthrenes and derivatives thereof; mono-or distyryl aryls and derivatives thereof such as distyrylhenzenes. distyrylbiphenyls, stilbenes, fiulvenes, dihenzofulyenes, linear polyenes (from 2 to 6 alkenes) including cyclic polyencs such as cyclooctatctraene and further materials described in Handbook of Photochernistry, 2 Edition, Steven L Murov. Ian Carmichael and Gordon L Hug. the contents of which are incorporated herein by relerence.
Each said compound may optionally be substituted, for example substituted with alkyl groups. In one embodiment, the triplet-accepting unit does not comprise a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon unit comprising more than 12 sp2 hybridised carbon atoms..
Exemplary mono-and di-styryl aryl compounds include the following:
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Exemplary anthanthrenc compounds include the following: a Ak Ak1 i J f j ) Ma e e fl wherein Ak is alkyl. in particular branched or straight chain C1-10 alkyl. Particularly preferred alkyl groups are n-butyl, t-butyl. n-hexyl and n-octyl.
The triplet-accepting unit may be a compound that is physically mixed with the light emitting polymer and any other components that may be present in the composition, or it may be bound to a the light-emitting composition or to one of these other components, where present.
The other component or components may be may be, for example, one or more charge transporting materials such as a hole transporting or electron transporting material. In the ease where the triplet-accepting unit is bound to the light-emitting polymer it may he provided as repeat units in the polymer niain chain, one or more side groups pendant from the polymer main chain, or polymer end-groups.
The triplet-accepting unit may be hound into the main chain of a light-emiliing polymer by polymerising a monomer comprising the triplet accepting repeat unit substituted with at least two polymerisable groups, such as leaving groups capable of participating in a metal-catalysed cross-coupling reaction (it will be appreciated that polymerisation of a monomer comprising more than two leaving groups will create a hranch point in the polymcr ii more than two of the leaving groups react). Substitution of leaving groups on sp2 carbon atoms of the triplet-accepting unit. may be used for this purpose. Exemplary leaving groups include halogen and boronic acid or ester groups for use in Suzuki or Yamamoto polymerisation reactions. described in more detail below. The triplet-accepting unit may he bound to any repeat unit of the light-emitting polymer described below, for example to a light-emitting
II
repeat unit, an electron-transporting repeat unit and / or a hole transporting repeat unit. In one embodiment, this polymer comprises a triplet-accepting repeat unit and an arylene co-repeat unit, for example a repeat unit of formula (IV) described below.
Exemplary repeat units include the following: * Ak t AkAk wherein * denotes the linking points for linking the repeat unit into the polymer chain, andAk is alkyl, in particular branched or straight chain C140 alkyl. Particularly preferred alkyl groups are n-butyl, t-butyl, n-hexyl and n-octyl. R is H or a substituent, optionally alkyl or optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl, for example phenyl substituted with one or more alkyl groups The triplet-accepting unit may be provided as a side-group or end-group of a light-emitting polymer by reacting a compound substituted with one polymerisable group, such as a leaving group capable of participating in a metal-catalysed cross-coupling reaction, such as a halogen or horonic acid or ester, with a leaving group on the polymer.
Exemplary end-group units include the following: Alternatively, a side-group may be incorporated into a light-emitting polymer by providing it as a suhstituent of a monomer as illustrated below: PG -Polymerisable unit -PG Triplet-absorbing unit wherein PG represents a polymerisable group such as a leaving group as described above, or a polymerisable double bond.
Exemplary side-oup monomers include the following: wherein * denotes the linking points for linking the repeat unit into the polymer chain, and R is alkyl, in particular branched or straight chain C140 alkyl. heteroaryl or aryl. with optional alkyl, aryl or heteroaryl substituents.
In order to increase the probability of TTA and delayed fluorescence as described above, a plurality of triplet-accepting units may be provided in close proximity. For example, two such units may be provided in an optionally substituted unit having the general formula (II): TAJJ-Spacer-TAU (II) wherein "TAU' represents a triplet accepting unit of formula (I) and the spacer is a conjugated or non-conjugated spacer group. The spacer group separates the two triplet-accepting TAU groups, and preferably separates their electronic characteristics (for example the HOMO and LUMO). Depending on the precise nature of the conjugation and orbital overlap, Sp could optionally comprise one or more aryene or heteroarylene groups such as substituted phenyl, hiphenyl or fluorenc. Alternatively. Sp could optionally comprise a non-conjugated linking group such as alkyl. or another molecular link that does not provide a conjugation path between the TAU groups.
The unit of formula (II) may he a separate compound physically mixed with the light-emitting polymer or it may be bound to the light-emitting polymer. In the case where the light-emitting polymer is a polymer, the unit of formula (II) may be bound as a main-chain repeat unit, a side group or an end-group as described above.
Alternatively or additionally, the triplet-accepting unit may be an oligomer or polymer, or a component of an oligomer or polymer, comprising a repeat structure of formula (JIb): (TAJJ-Spacer)1, (Jib) wherein m is at least 2. This oligomer or polymer may be mixed with the light-emitting polymer or may be provided within the polymer backbone.
Although binding of the triplet-accepting unit to the light-emitting polymer is described above, it will be appreciated that the triplet-accepting unit may be bound to any other component of the composition, where present. in the same way. The concentration of the tnplet-accepting unit is optionally at least 0.1 inol % or at least 1 mol%. for example in the range of 0.1 -JO mol% or J -10 mol % relative to the light emitting material. A higher concentration of the triplet-accepting materia' increases the probability of TTA.
Jn order to increase the probability of TTA, the lifetime of excited state triplets residing on the triplet accepting materiaJ is optionaJly at least 1 microsecond, optionaJly at least JO microseconds. optiona1y at least 100 microseconds. The lifetime ol a triplet exciton is its half-life, which may be measured by flash photolysis to measure monomolecular triplet lifetime as described in Handbook of Photoehemistry. 2nd Edition. Steven L Murov, Ian Carmichael and Gordon L Hug and references therein, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Jt will be appreciated that, unlike phosphorescent dopants, the triplet-accepting materiaJ does not provide an energetically favourable pathway for absorbed triplets to undergo radiative decay, and as a result substantially none of the energy of the triplet exeiton absorbed by the tnplet-aeeepting material is lost from the triplet-accepting material in the form of phosphorescent light emission from the triplet-accepting material.
The density of triplet excitons on a light-emitting material, for example on the polymer backbone of a conjugated light-emitting polymer. may be measured using quasi-continuous wave (quasi-cw) excited state absorption as described in more detail below.
Figure 4 illustrates the structure of an OLED according to an embodiment of the invention.
The OLED comprises a transparent glass or plastic substrate 1, an anode 2, a cathode 4 and a light-emitting layer 3 provided between anode 2 and the cathode 4. Further layers may be located between anode 2 and the cathode, such as charge transporting, charge injecting or charge blocking layers.
Light emitting polymer The light-emitting polymer may be a light-emitting homopolymer comprising light-emitting repeat units, or it may be a copolymer comprising light-emitting repeat units and further repeat units such as hole transporting and / or electron transporting repeat units as disclosed in, for example. WO 00/55927. Each repeat unit may be provided in a main chain or side chain of the polymer.
Suitable light-emitting polymers for use in ayer 3 indude poly(arylene vinylenes) such as poly(p-phenylene vinylenes) and polyarylenes such as: polyfluorenes, particularly 2,7-linked 9,9 dialky polyfluorenes or 2,7-linked 9.9 diaryl polyfluorenes: polyspirofluorenes, particularly 2,7-linked poly-9.9-spirofluorene; polyindenofluorenes, particularly 2.7-linked polyindenofluorcnes: polyphenylenes. particularly alkyl or alkoxy substituted poly-1.4-phenylene. Such polymers as disclosed in, for example, Adv. Mater. 2000 12(23) 1737-1750 and references therein.
Light-emitting polymers preferably comprise a repeat unit selected from arylene repeat units as disclosed in, for example. Adv. Mater. 2000 12(23) 1737-1750 and references therein.
Exemplary first repeat units include: 1,4-phenylene repeat units as disclosed in J. Appl. Phys. 1996, 79, 934; fluorene repeat units as disclosed in EP 0842208; indenofluorcnc repeat units as disclosed in, for example, Macromolecules 2000. 33(6), 2016-2020; and spirofluorene repeat units as disclosed in. for example EP 0707020. Each of these repeat units is optionally substituted. Examples of substituents include soluhilising groups such as C12n alkyl or alkoxy; electron withdrawing groups such as fluonne, nitro or cyano; and substituents for increasing glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymer. Arylene repeat units, or a chain thereof, may provide electron-transporting functionality. For example, a chain of polyfluorenes may provide electron transporting functionality in the polymer.
Particularly preferred polymers comprise optionally substituted, 2,7-linked fluorenes. most preferably repeat units of formula IV: (IV) wherein R' and R2 are independently H or a substituent and wherein R' and R2 may be linked to form a ring. R' and R2 arc preferaffly selected from the group consisting of hydrogen; optionally substituted alkyl wherein one or more non-adjacent C atoms may be replaced with 0, S. N. C=O and -COO-; optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl; and optionally substituted arylalkyl or heteroarylailcyl. More preferably, at least one of R' and R2 comprises an optionally substituted aWyl, br example C1-C20 alkyl or aryl group.
"Aryl" and "heteroaryl" as used herein includes both fused and unfused aryl and heteroaryl groups respectively.
Optionally. fluorene repeat units are present in an amount of at least 50 mol %.
In the case where R' or R2 comprises aryl or heteroaryl, a preferred aryl or heteroaryl group is phenyl, and prefelTed optional substituents include alkyl groups wherein one or more non-adjacent C atoms may he replaced with 0. S. N. C=O and -COO-.
Optional substituents for the fluorene unit, other than substituents R' and R2. are preferably selected from the group consisting of alkyl wherein one or more non-adjacent C atoms may be replaced with 0, S. N. C=O and -COO-. optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted hctcroaryl, alkoxy, alkyllhio, fluorine. cyano and arylalkyl.
Preferably, the polymer comprises an arylene repeat unit as described above and an arylarnine repeat unit, in particular a repeat unit V: Ar1(iJ_Ar2 n (V) wherein Ar' and Ar2 are optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl groups. n is greater than or equal to 1, preferably 1 or 2, and R is H or a substituent, preferably a substituent. R is preferably alkyl or aryl or heteroaryl, most preferably aryl or heteroaryl. Any of the aryl or heteroaryl groups in the unit of formula 1, including the ease where R is aryl or heteroaryh may he substituted, and in one embodiment Ar', Ar2 and Rare each optionally substituted phenyl. Preferred substituents are selected from alkyl wherein one or more non-adjacent C atoms may be replaced with 0, S, N. C=O and -COO-, optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted heteroaryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, fluorine. cyano and arylalkyl. Preferred substituents include alkyl and alkoxy groups. Any of the aryl or heteroaryl groups in the repeat unit of Formula 1 may be linked by a direct bond or a divalent linking atom or group. Preferred divalent linking atoms and groups include 0. S; substituted N; and substituted C. Particularly preferred units satisfying Formula 1 include units of Formulae 1-3: Ar1 Ar1 Ar1 Ar1 Ar1 Ar1-/ NNZ NNV Ar2\ ira3 lr A' N 1 2 3 wherein Ar' and Ar2 are as defined above; and Ar3 is optionally substituted aryl or hetero»=uyl.
Where present, preferred substituents for Ar3 include alkyl and allcnxy groups.
The arylamine repeat units are preferably present in an amount up to 30 mol%, preferably up to 20 mol%. These percentages apply to the total number of arylamine units present in the polymer in the case where more than one type of repeat unit of formula V is used. Repeat.
units of formula (V) may provide one or more of hole transporting functionality and light-emitting functionality.
The polymer may comprise heteroarylene repeat units for charge transport or emission.
Binding a triplet-accepting unit to the light-emitting polymer may result in more efficient.
triplet acceptance as compared to mixing of a triplet-accepting material with the light-emitting polymer because this binding may provide intramolec&ar triplet acceptance pathways unavailable to a colTesponding mixed system.
Moreover, binding may be beneficial for processing reasons. For example, if the triplet-accepting unit has low solubility then binding it to a soluble light-emitting polymer allows the triplet-accepting unit to be carried in solution by the light-emitting polymer, enabling device fabrication using solution processing techniques. Furthermore, if the triplet-accepting unit is a rdatively volatile materiaL such as stilhcne or a derivative thereof, then the risk of evaporation of the triplet accepting material during device fabncation is eliminated. This is a particular issue in the case of OLEDs formed using solution processing methods because light-emitting ayers formed by deposition of a solution are typically heated as part of the device fabrication process (for example, to evaporate the solvent), which increases the likelihood of evaporation of volatile triplet-accepting units. Finally, binding the triplet.
accepting unit to the light-emitting polymer may prevent phase separation effects in solution-processed devices that may he detrimental to device performance.
Where the light-emitting polymer is a conjugated polymer comprising light-emitting repeat.
units and further repeat units, for examp'e light-emitting amine repeat units of formu'a (V) and fluorene repeat units of formula (IV), conjugation of the triplet-accepting unit into the polymer main chain (for example by conjugation with fluorcne repeat units) may reduce the T1 energy level of the triplet-accepting unit, thus increasing the energetic favourability of triplet cxciton transfer from the emitter unit to the triplet-accepting unit. This reduction in T1 energy level of the triplet-accepting unit may also enable use of the triplet-accepting unit with light-emitting polymers with T1 levels that are too low for use with a triplet-accepting unit that is not conjugated in this way.
Preferred methods for preparation of conjugaled light-emitting polymers comprise a "metal insertion" wherein the metal atom of a metal complex catalyst is inserted between an aryl or hetcroaryl group and a leaving group of a monomer. Exemplary metal insertion methods are Suzuki polymcrisation as dcscnbcd in, for example, WO 00/53 656 and Yamamoto polymerisation as described in, for example. T. Yamamoto, "Electrically Conducting And Thermally Stable it -Conjugated Poly(arylene)s Prepared by Organometallic Processes", Progress in Polymer Science 1993, 17, 1153-1205. In the case of Yamamoto polymerisation.
a nickel complex catalyst is used; in the case of Suzuki polymerisation, a palladium complex catalyst is used.
For example. in the synthesis of a linear polymer by Yamamoto polymerisation, a monomer having two reactive halogen groups is used. Similarly, according to the method of Suzuki polymerisation, at least one reactive group is a boron derivative group such as a boronic acid or boronic ester and the other reactive group is a halogen. Preferred halogens are chlorine, bromine and iodine, most preferably bromine.
It will therefore he appreciated that repeat nnits illustrated throughout this application may he derived from a monomer calTying suitable leaving groups. Likewise, an end group or side group may be bound to the polymer by reaction of a suitable leaving group.
Suzuki polymerisation may be used to prepare regioregular, block and random copolymers.
In particular. homopolymers or random copolyrners may he prepared when one reactive group is a halogen and the other reactive group is a boron derivative group. Alternatively, block or regioregular. in particular AB, copolymers may be prepared when both reactive groups of a first monomer are boron and both reactive groups of a second monomer are halogen.
As alternatives to halides, other leaving groups capable of participating in metal insertion include groups include tosylate, mesylate and triflate.
Light-emitting layer 3 may consist of the light-emitting polymer and the triplet accepting unit alone, alone or may comprise these materials in combination with one or more further materials. In particular. the light-emitting polymer may be blended with hole and / or electron transporting materials or alternatively may be covalently bound to hole and / or electron transporting materials as disclosed in for example, WO 99/48160.
Light-emitting copolymers may comprise a light-emitting region and at least one of a hole transporting region and an electron transporting region as disclosed in, for example. WO 00/55927 and US 6353083. If only one of a hole transporting region and electron transporting region is provided then the electroluminescent region may also provide the other of hole transport and electron transport functionality -for example. an amine unit as described above may provide both hole transport and light-emission functionality. A light-emitting copolymer comprising light-emitting repeat units and one or both of a hole transporting repeat units and electron transporting repeat units may provide said units in a polymer main-chain, as per US 6353083. or in polymer side-groups pendant from the polymer backbone.
The light-emitting polymer may emit light of ally colour provided that its S1 and Ti energy levels relative to the triplet-accepting unit are as described above, however the light-emitting polymer is preferably a blue light-emitting polymer. in particular a material having photoluminescent light emission with a peak wavelength in the range of from 400 to 500 nm, preferably 430 to 500 nm.
Light-emitting layer layer 3 may be patterned or unpatterned. A device comprising an unpatterned layer may be used an illumination source, for example. A white light emitting device is particularly suitable for this purpose. A device comprising a patterned layer may be. for example, an active matrix display or a passive matrix display. In the case of an active matrix display, a patterned electroluminescent layer is typically used in combination with a patterned anode layer and an unpatterned cathode. In the case of a passive matrix display, the anode layer is formed of parallel stripes of anode material, and parallel stripes of electroluminescent material and cathode material arranged perpendicular to the anode material wherein the stripes of electroluminescent material and cathode material are typically separated by stripes of insulating malerial ("cathode separators") formed by photolithography.
Hole injection layers A conductive hole injection layer, which may be formed from a conductive organic or inorganic material, may be provided between the anode 2 and the electroluminescent layer 3 to assist hcAe injection from the anode into the layer or ayers of semiconducting polymer.
Examples of doped organic hole injection materials include optionally substituted, doped poly(ethylene dioxythiophene) (PEDT). in particular PEDT doped with a charge-balancing polyaeid such as polystyrene sulfonate (P55) as disclosed in EP 0901176 and EP 0947123.
polyaerylie acid or a fluorinated sulfonic acid, for example Nation ®; polyaniline as disclosed in US 5723873 and US 5798170; and optionally substituted polythiophene or poly(thienothiophene). Examples of conductive inorganic materials include transition metal oxides such as VOx MoOx and RuOx as disclosed in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (1996), 29(11), 2750-2753.
Charge transporting layers A hole transporting layer may he provided between the anode and the electroluminescent layer. Likewise, an dectron transporting layer may he provided between die cathode and (lie electroluminescent layer.
Similarly, an electron blocking ayer may he provided between (lie anode and die electroluminescent layer and a hole blocking layer may he provided between the cathode and the electroluminescent layer. Transporting and blocking layers may be used in combination.
Depending on its HOMO and LUMO levels, a single layer may both transport one of holes and electrons and block the other of holes and electrons.
If present. a hole transporting layer located between anode 2 and electroluminescent layer 3 preferably has a HOMO level of less than or equal to 5.5 eV. more preferably around 4.8-5.5 eV. 1-lOMO levels may he measured by cyclic voltanimetry, for example.
If present. an electron transporting layer located between electroluminescent layer 3 and cathode 4 preferably has a LUMO level of around 3-3.5 cv. For example, a layer of a silicon monoxide or silicon dioxide or other thin dielectric layer having thickness in the range of 0.2-2nm is provided between electroluminescent layer 3 and layer 4.
Polymers for use as charge transporting materials may comprise arylene units, such as fluorene units of formula (P1) and other units described above.
A hole-transporting polymer may comprise arylamine repeat units, in particular repeat units of formula V), such as repeat units of formulae 1-3, described above. This polymer may be a homopolymer or it may be a copolymer comprising arylene repeat units in an amount up to mol %, preferably up to 70 mdl %. These percentages apply to die total number of arylamine units present in the polymer in the ease where more than one type of repeat unit of formula (V) is used.
Charge transporting units may be provided in a polymer main-chain or polymer side-chain.
Cathode Cathode 4 is selected from materials that have a workfunction allowing injection of electrons into the electroluminescent layer. Other factors influence the selection of the cathode such as the possibility of adverse interactions between the cathode and the electroluminescent material. The cathode may consist of a single material such as a layer of aluminium.
Alternatively. it may comprise a plurality of metals, for example a bilayer of a low workfunction material and a high workfunction material such as calcium and aluminium as disclosed in WO 98/10621; elemental barium as disclosed in WO 98/57381, Appl. Phys. Lett.
2002, 8 1(4), 634 and WO 02/84759; or a thin layer of metal compound, in particular an oxide or fluoride of an alkali or alkali earth metal, to assist electron injection, for example lithium fluoride as disclosed in WO 00/48258; barium fluoride as disclosed in AppI. Phys. Lett. 2001, 79(5), 2001; and barium oxide. hi order to provide efficient injection of electrons into the device, the cathode preferably has a workfunction of less than 3.5 cv, more preferably less than 3.2 eV, most preferably less than 3 eV. Work functions of metals can be found in, for example, Michaelson. J. Appl. Phys. 48(11), 4729. 1977.
The cathode may be opaque or transparent. Transparent cathodes are particularly advantageous for activc matrix devices because emission through a transparent anodc in such devices is at least partially blocked by drive circuitry located underneath the emissive pixels.
A transparent cathode will comprises a ayer of an electron injecting material that is sufficiently thin to he transparent. Typically, the lateral conductivity of this ayer will below as a result of its thinness. In this case, the layer of electron injecting material is used in combination with a thicker layer of transparent conducting material such as indium tin oxide.
It will be appreciated that a transparent cathode device need not have a transparent anode (unless, of course, a fully transparent device is desired), and so the transparent anode used for bottom-emitting devices may be replaced or supplemented with a layer of reflective material such as a layer of aluminium. Examples of transparent cathode devices are disclosed in, for
example, GB 2348316.
Encapsulation Optical devices tend to be sensitive to moisture and oxygen. Accordingly, the substrate preferably has good barrier properties for prevention of ingress of moisture and oxygen into the device. The substrate is commonly glass, however alternative substrates may he used, in particular where flexibility of the device is desirable. For example, the substrate may comprise a plastic as in US 6268695 which discloses a substrate of alternating plastic and barrier layers or a laminate of thin glass and plastic as disclosed in EP 0949850.
The device is preferably encapsulated with an encapsulant (not shown) to prevent ingress of moisture and oxygen. Suitable encapsulants include a sheet of glass, films having suitable barrier properties such as silicon dioxide. silicon monoxide, sihcon nitride or alternating stacks of polymer and dielectric as disclosed in, for example. WO 01/81649 or an airtight container as disclosed in, for example, WO 01/19142. Tn the case of a transparent cathode device, a transparent encapsulating layer such as silicon monoxide or silicon dioxide may be deposited to micron levels of thickness, although in one preferred embodiment the thickness of such a ayer is in the range of 20-300 nut A getter material for absorption of any atmospheric moisture and / or oxygen that may permeate through the substrate or encapsulant may be disposed between the substrate and the encapsulant.
Solution processing Light-emitting layer 3 may he deposited by any process, including vacuum evaporation and deposition from a solution in a solvent. hi the case where the light emitting layer comprises a polyarylene. such as a polyfluorene, suitable solvents for solution deposition include mono-or poly-alkylbenzenes such as toluene and xylene. Particularly preferred solution deposition techniques including printing and coating techniques, preferably spin-coating and inkjet printing.
Spin-coating is particularly suitable for devices wherein patterning of the electroluminescent material is unnecessary -br example Icr lighting applications or simple monochrome segmented displays.
Inkjct printing is particularly suitable for high information content displays, in particular full colour displays. A device may be inkjct printed by providing a patterned layer over the first electrode and defining wells for printing of one colour (in the case of a monochrome device) or multiple colours (in the case of a multicolour, in particular full colour device). The patterned layer is typically a layer of photorcsist that is patterned to define wells as described in, for example, EP 0880303.
As an alternative to wells, the ink may be printed into channels defined within a patterned layer. In particifiar, the photoresist may he patterned to form channels which, unlike wells, extend over a plurality of pixels and which may be closed or open at the channel ends.
Other solution deposition techniques include dip-coating, roll printing and screen printing.
If multiple layers of an OLED are formed by solution processing then the skilled person will he aware of techniques to prevent intermixing of adjacent layers, for example by crosslinking of one layer before deposition of a subsequent layer or selection of materials for adjacent layers such that the material from which the first of these layers is formed is not soluble in the solvent used to deposit the second layer.
Monomer Example I
A monomer for forming a triplet-quenching unit was prepared according to the following method: IBr B2Fin2 4 /7 Ag2CO3 YK THF Pd(PPh3)4 \ / \ /\ Br Monomer I This synthesis illustrates substitution at the 2 and 8 positions. Analogous substitution may be provided at the 6,12 and / or 4,10-positions as illustrated below.
2,8 6,12 4,10 Composition Example 1 Monomer 1 was polymerised by Suzuki polymerisation as descr bed in WO 00/53 656 with triarylamine and fluorene co-monomers to form a co-polymer comprising amine repeat units of formula (V) and fluorene repeat units of formula (IV).
Composition Example 2 A triplet-quenching material 11 was prepared according to thc following method: :> 4 5 c1l2 :2< 6 7 8 I. 4-bromobenzaldebyde, NaUBu, IHF: IL BuLL PB, THF. ih. 3, Pd(PFh3)2C12, Et4NOH, toluene, v. 1-bromo-4-iadobenzene, Pd(PFb3)4,Ag2001, IHF, v. BuLl, H20, THF Compound 11 was mixed with a light-emitting polymer comprising fluorene repeat units of formula (IV) and light-emitting amine repeat units of formula (V).
Device Example I
A device having the following structure was formed: ITO/HIL/HTL/EL/MF/A1 wherein ITO represents an indium-tin oxide anode; HJL is a 35 nm hole-injection layer; I-ITL is a 15 nrn hole transport layer of a polymer comprising fluorene repeat units of formula (IV) and amine repeat units of formula (V); EL is an electroluminescent layer (70 nm) containing a light-emitting polymer comprising fluorene repeat units of formula (IV) and amine repeat units of formula (V) blended with a triplet accepting material; MF is a metal fluoride; and the bilayer of MF I Al foims a cathode for the device. The Hifi, HTL and EL layers were deposited by spin-coating the composition from solution and evaporating the solvent.
Device Example 2
A device was lormed as per Device Example 1, wherein HTL comprises (lie 50:50 mol copolymer F8-TFB (poly-(9,9-dioctylfluorene-N-(4-(2-hutyl)phenyl)-diphenylamine)) and EL comprises the 95:5 mol copolymer F8-PFB poly-( ,9'-dioctylfluorene-co-bis-N, N'-(4-butylphenyl)-bis-N.N'-phenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine)) blended (1% mol ratio) with a triplet quenching additive DPVBi (4,4 -his(2,2 diphenylvinyl)-1,1 -hiphenyl).
DPVBi has a triplet energy in the red-green portion of the spectrum (see Chen, P. et al. White organic light-emitting devices with a bipolar transport layer between blue fluorescent and orange phosphorescent emitting layers. Ap9L Phys. Left. 91, 023505-3 (2007); Schwartz, G., Fehse, K.. Pfeiffer, M., Walzer, K. & Leo, K. Highly efficient white organic light emitting diodes comprising an interlayer to separate fluorescent and phosphorescent regions.
Applied Physics Letters 89, 083509 (2006); and Romanovskii, Y.V. et al. Phosphorescence of pi-conjugated oligomers and pdlymers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1027-1030 (2000).
DPVBi also has a high singlet energy (3.2eV) compared to the luminescent polymer so this molecule will accept the polymer triplets without affecting the eniissive singlet states, this is confirmed by the observation that the incorporation of this small molecule into the polymer does not affect either the intensity or spectrum of the device photoluminescence. 5O5
F8-TFB (I) / O.95 F8-PFB (2) DPVB1 (3) The dynamics of the singlet and triplet excitons were studied using time resolved electroluminescence as well as quasi-cw and time resolved excited state absorption. The excited state absorption techniques have been described elsewhere (King, S., Rothe, C. & Monkman, A. Triplet build in and decay of isolated polyspirobifluorene chains in dilute solution. J. Chem. Pkys. 121, 10803-10808 (2004), and Dhoot, A.S.. Ginger, D.S., Be] jonne, D., Shuai, Z. & Greenharn. N.C. Triplet formation and decay in conjugated polymer devices.
Chemical Physics Letters 360. 195-201 (2002)) and the triplet state of polyfluorenes has been well characterised with these techniques with a strong excited state absorption feature peaking at 780nm attributed to the triplet state (King, S.. Rothe, C. & Monkman, A. Triplet build in and decay of isolated polyspirobifluorene chains in dilute solution. J. Chem. Phyc. 121. 10803-10808 (2004) and Rothe. C.. King, S.M., Dias, F. & Monkman. A.P.
Triplet exciton state and related phenomena in the beta-phase of poly(9.9-dioctyl)fluorene.
Physical Review B 70, (2004)). Probes of the polyfluorene triplet population were performed at 780nm, and the skilled person will understand how to modify this probe for other light-emitting materials based on the excited state absorption features of those materials.
Figure 5 shows the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of Device Example 2 (diamond), and that of a comparative device in which the triplet quenching additive is absent (square). The device with the triplet quenching additive shows a significant reduction in the peak EQE of approximatdy 20% at high voltage. The loss of efficiency occurs without any change to the electroluminescence spectrum of the device; therefore as would be expected from the singlet energy, the additive is neither quenching the singlet excitons nor taking part in the emission of the device. Without wishing to be bound by any theory. it is believed that the loss in efficiency is due to the removal of the TTA component caused by the quenching of the tnplets from the light emitting polymer The density of triplet excitons on the polymer backbone is measured using quasi-cw excited state absorption as outlined above.
Figure 6 shows the density of triplets on the polymer backbone both including (diamond) and excluding (square) the triplet quencher, in the device with the additive the density of triplets on the fluorene backbone is reduced by approximately a factor of 10, thus the additive is very elTicient at quenching the triplets from the polymer at al device drive voltages. Literature values for the extinction coelTicient of the trip'et excited state absorption in conjugated polymers range22 from 105cm2 this gives atriplct density of l0'6-l0'7cm3 in the standard device at typical drive culTents of 50mAcni2 and decay is dominated by their mutual bimolecular annihilation resulting in the production of emissive singlet excitons Figure 7 shows the time resolved electroluminescence during the turn off of Device Example 2 compared with the time resolved transient trplet absorption and its square. The dotted lines are of the same slope. Also shown is the effect on the electroluminescence turn off when a reverse bias pulse of -lOv 200ns duration is applied to the device 2SOns after the device current is switched off.
After turn off of the current there is initiafly a rapid decay of the luminance on a similar timescale to the RC time constant of the device then a residual signal in the EL which accounts for about 30% of the total original electroluminescence and decays in a few microseconds. Generally slow transient emissions in OLEDs are ascribed to either the recombination of charges from deep traps or interiacial charge layers or TTA (see Kondakov, D.Y. Characterization of triplet-triplet annihilation in organic light-emitting diodes based on anthracene derivatives. J. Appi. Phys. 102, 114504-5 (2007), Sinha, S., Rothe, C., Guentner.
R., Scherf, U. & Monkrnan. A.P. Electrophosphorescence and Delayed Electroluminescence from Pristine Polylluorene Thin Film Devices at Low Temperature. Physical Review Letters 90, 127402 (2003). and Sinha, S., Monkman. A.P., Guntner. R. & Schcrf, U. Space-charge-mediated delayed electroluminescence from polyfluorene thin films. Appi. Phys. Lett. 82, 4693-4695 (2003)).
In order to distinguish between the two mechanisms the same transient electroluminescence trace has been measured with the application of a lOv reverse bias pulse lOOns after the turn off of the device current, this pulse will remove, or at least perturb significantly, any trapped charge contribution to the decay of the luminance. The data shows that although emission is quenched slightly during the reverse bias pulse due to the electric field quenching of the singlet exeitons the decay of EL after the reverse bias pulse is unchanged compared to the standard decay shape. One can therelère conclude that that the recombination of trapped charge is not a significant contributor to the residual luminance signal (Popovie, Z.D. & Aziz, H. Delayed electroluminescence in small-molecule-based organic light-emitting diodes: Evidence for triplet-triplet annihilation and recombination-center-mediated light-generation mechanism. J. Appi. Phy 98, 0135 10-5 (2005)). Moreover, comparing the shape of the residual luminescence with the triplet density (shown in figure 7) there are two observations, firstly that the timescale of the decay of the triplets is similar to the decay of the EL but more importantly the approximate slope of the decay of the residual luminance is very similar to the sthpe of the square of the triplet density. This observation is strong evidence that the residual decay of the EL is due to bimolecular triplet-triplet annihilation reactions resulting in emissive singlet excitons. It is valuable to note that the tnplet exciton density is not significantly quenched by the application of a lOv reverse bias pulse because the triplets are considerably more stable than singets to electric fidd due to their inherently greater exciton binding energy (Rothe, C.. King, S.M. & Monkman. A.P. Heetrie-uield-induced singlet and triplet exciton quenching in films of the conjugated polymer polysphobifluorene. Phys. Rev.
B 72, 035220 (2005) and Deussen, M., Seheidler, M. & Bassler, H. Electric-Field-Induced Photolumincsecncc Quenching in Thin-Film Light-Emitting-Diodes Based on Poly(Phcnyl-P-Phenylenc Vinylene). Synih. Mel.. 73, 123-129 (1995)).
Figure 8 shows the electroluminescence decay of a device both with (dotted line) and without (full line) the triplet quenching additive, the effect on the lifetime is clear, there is an improvement in T90 of approximately 5 times and an improvement of >3x to the final device lifetime. The lower panel of figure 5 which shows the efficiency of the devices during lifetest clearly shows that the extra efficiency boost from the TTA contribution is lost early on in the lifetest. after which the decay of the two devices is remarkably similar.
The cost to this gain in lifetime is the 20% drop in EQE from complete removal of TTA is easily outweighed by this stabilisation of the initial decay. In further arrangements.
both high efficiency and lifetime may he achieved by utilising stable TTA as described above.
Although the present invention has been described in terms of specific exemplary embodiments, it will he appreciated that various modifications, alterations and/or combinations of features disclosed herein will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
CLAUSES
1) A composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting polymer comprising light-emitting repeat units, and a triplet-accepting unit bound to the light-emitting polymer.
2) A composition according to clause 1 in which the triplet-accepting unit is present in an amount in the range of 0.1 to 10 mol %.
3) A composition according to clause 1 wherein the triplet-accepting unit is a tnplet accepting compound mixed with the light-emitting polymer and any other component or components of the composition.
4) A composition according to clause 1 wherein the triplet-accepting unit is bound to the light-emitting polymer or to any other component or components of the composition.
5) A composition according to clause 4 wherein the composition comprises at least one of a hole transporting material and an electron transporting material and wherein the triplet-accepting unit is hound to at least one of the hole transporting material, the dectron transporting material and the light-emitting material.
6) A composition according to clause 4 wherein the tripkt-accepting unit is bound to the light emitting polymer.
7) A composition according to clause 6 wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises a light-emitting repeat unit and at least one of repeat units providing electron transport and repeat units providing hole transport, wherein the triplet-accepting matcrial is bound to at least one of the light-emitting repeat unit, the repeat unit providing electron transport and the repeat unit providing hole transport.
8) A composition according to clause 4 or 5 wherein the triplet-accepting unit is a repeat unit in the main chain of the light-emitting polymer or a side-group or end-group of the light-emitting polymer.
9) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein the triplet-accepting unit is substituted with one or more soluhilising groups.
10) A composition according to clause 9 wherein the solubilising group is selected from alkyl and alkoxy.
11) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein (lie light-emitting p&ymer comprises arylamine repeat units.
12) A composition according to clause 11 wherein the arylamine repeat units are units of formula (V): Ar1_(IJ_Ar2 n (V) wherein Ar' and Ar2 are optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl groups, n is greater than or equal to 1, preferably 1 or 2, and R is H or a substituent.
13) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein the polymer comprises aryl or heteroaryl repeat units.
14) A composition according to clause 13 comprising repeat units of formula (IV): (IV) wherein R' and R2 are independently H or a substituent. and R' and R2 may be linked to form a ring.
15) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein the triplet-accepting material is present in an amount of at least 0.1 mol %.
16) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein the composition has a photoluminescent light emission peak wavelength in the range of 400 to 500 nm.
17) A composition according to any preceding clause wherein the triplet-accepting unit does not comprise a perylene.
18) A formulation comprising a solvent and a coniposition according to any preceding clause.
19) An organic light-emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-emitting layer between the anode and cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a composition according to any one of clauses 1-17.
20) A method of forming an organic light-emitting device according to clause 19 comprising the steps of depositing the formulation according to clause 14 and evaporating the solvent.
21) Use of a unit for acceptance of triplet excitons generated by a light-emitting polymer in a composition comprising the triplet-accepting unit and the light-emitting polymer.
22) Use according to clause 21 wherein the triplet-accepting unit is physically mixed with the light-emitting polymer.
23) Use according to clause 22 wherein the triplet-accepting unit is chemically hound to the light-emitting polymer.
24) Use according to any of clauses 21-23 wherein the triplet-accepting unit quenches triplet excitons generated by the light-emitting polymer.
25) Use according to any of clauses 21-23 wherein the triplet-accepting unit mediates tnplet-triplet annihilation of tnplet excitons transferred from the light emitting polymer to the tnplct-acccpting unit.

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  1. CLAIMS1. A composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting polymer mixed with a triplet-accepting oligomer or polymer comprising a repeat structure of formula (JIb): (TAJJ-Spacer)11 UIb) wherein TAT] represents a triplet accepting unit, Spacer is a spacer group and m is at least 2.
  2. 2. A composition according to claim 1 wherein Spacer is selected from arylene or heteroarylene groups.
  3. 3. A composition according to claim 2 wherein Spacer is selected from substituted phenyl, biphenyl and fluorene.
  4. 4. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the triplet-accepting oligomer or polymer is a polymer and the TAU is selected from the following repeat.units wherein * denotes the linking points for linking the repeat unit into the polymer chain, Ak is alkyl, and R is H or a substitucnt: * AkAk AAk
  5. 5. A composition according to any of daims 1-3 wherein the triplet-accepting oligomer or polymer is a polymer and the TAU is a repeat unit formed from onc of the following compounds:OH t\-t >------ $.-. .s-.--.1 -/ 1=1 \= \ r\ y___\ >-c t- aJ \. 4. I / -/ /-\ f-\ \
    -r( fl
    ___y \_* \==j =__, _- LJ Cs?
  6. 6. A composition according to any preceding claim whereth, the triplet-accepting unit is substituted with one or more soluhihsing groups.
  7. 7. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the solubilising group is selected from ailcyl and alkoxy.
  8. S. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises arylamine repeat units.
  9. 9. A composition according to daim S wherein the arylamine repeat units are units of formula (V): Ar1_(FjJ_Ar2) (V) wherein Ar and Ar-are optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl groups, n is greater than or equal to 1, preferably 1 or 2, and R is H or a substituent.
  10. 10. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises aryl or heteroaryl repeat units.
  11. 11. A composition according to claim 10 wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises repeat units of formula (IV): (IV) wherein R' and R2 are independently H or a substituent. and R' and R2 may be linked to lorm a ring.
  12. 12. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the composition has a photoluminescent hght emissioii peak wavelength in the range ol 400 o 500 urn.
  13. 13. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the triplet-accepting unit does not comprise a peryene.
  14. 14. A formulation comprising a solvent and a composition according to any preceding claim.
  15. 15. An organic light-emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-emitting layer between the anode and cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a composition according to any one of claims 1-13.
  16. 16. A method of forming an organic light-emitting device according to the claim 15. the method comprising the steps of depositing the formulation according to claim 14 and evaporating the solvent.
  17. 17. Use of a unit for acceptance of triplet excitons generated by a light-emitting polymer in a composition comprising the triplet-accepting unit and the light-emitting polymer according to any one of claims 1-13.
  18. 18. Use according to claim 17 wherein the triplet-accepting unit quenches triplet excitons generated by the light-emitting polymer.
  19. 19. Use according to claim 17 wherein the triplet accepting unit mediates triplet-triplet annihilation of triplet excitons transferred from the light emitting polymer to the triplet-accepting unit.AMENDMENTS TO THE CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FILED AS FOLLOWS: Claims 1. A composition comprising a fluorescent light-emitting polymer mixed with a triplet-accepting oligomer or polymer comprising a repeat structure of formula (lIb): (TAU-Spacer)m (IIh) wherein TAIJ represents a triplet accepting unit, Spacer is a spacer group and rn is at least 2.2. A composition according to claim 1 wherein Spacer is selected from arylene or heteroarylene groups.3. A composition according to claim 2 wherein Spacer is selected from substituted phenyl. biphenyl and fluorene. r4. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the triplet-accepting o oligomer or polymer is a polymer and the TAU is selected from the following repeat units wherein * denotes the linking points for linking the repeat unit into the polymer chain. Ak is ailcyl. and R is H or a substituent: * Ak * AAk r r * * 5. A composition according to any of claims 1-3 wherein thc triplet-accepting oligomer or polymer is a polymer and the TAU is a repeat unit formed from one of the following compounds: --.-CgH7-. r 1 < 7 _J_,j /1 % C5H13 C6H13 r \/C5Hl3 -C6H13 C6H13 C6H13 6. A composition according to any prcccding claim whercin. thc triplet-accepting unit is substituted with one or more soluhihsing groups.7. A composition according to claim 6 wherein the soluhilising group is selected from ailcyl and alkoxy.8. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises arylamine repeat units.9. A composition according to claim 8 whercin thc arylaminc repeat units arc units of formula (V): I-/ Ar1-{-N-Ar2 Cv') (V) wherein Ar1 and Ar2 are optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl groups. n is greater than or equal to land R is H or a substitucnt.10. A composition according to claim 9 whcrcin n is equal to 1 or 2.is II. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises aryl or heteroaryl repeat units.12. A composition according to claim 11 wherein the light-emitting polymer comprises repeat units of formula (IV): (IV) wherein R' and R2 arc indcpcndcntly H or a substituent, and R' and R2 may be linked to form a ring.13. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the composition has a photoluminescent light emission peak wavelength in the range of 400 to 500 nm.14. A composition according to any preceding claim wherein the triplet-accepting unit does not comprise a perylene.15. A formifiation comprising a solvent and a composition according to any preceding claim.r 16. An organic light-emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode and a light-r eimtting layer between the anode and cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a composition according to any one of claims 1-14.17. A method of forming an organic light-emitting device according to the claim 16, the method comprising the steps of depositing the formulation according to claim 15 and evaporating the solvent.18. Use of a unit for acceptance of triplet excitons generated by a light-emitting polymer in a composition comprising the triplet-accepting unit and the light-emitting polymer according to any one of claims 1-14.19. Use according to claim 18 wherein the triplet-accepting unit quenches triplet excitons generated by the light-emitting polymer.
  20. 20. Use according to claim 18 whernin the tripkt accepting unit mediates triplet-triplet annihilation of tnplet excitons transferred from the light emitting polymer to the triplet-accepting unit.
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