WO2004050793A1 - Electroluminescent materials and devices - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to electroluminescent materials and devices incorporating electroluminescent materials.
- Liquid ciystal devices and devices which are based on inorganic semiconductor systems are widely used; however these suffer from the disadvantages of high energy consumption, high cost of manufacture, low quantum efficiency and the inability to make flat panel displays.
- Organic polymers have been proposed as useful in electroluminescent devices, but it is not possible to obtain pure colours; they are expensive to make and have a relatively low efficiency.
- aluminium quinolate Another compound which has been proposed is aluminium quinolate, but this requires dopants to be used to obtain a range of colours and has a relatively low efficiency.
- Patent application WO98/58037 describes a range of lanthanide complexes which can be used in electroluminescent devices which have improved properties and give better results.
- Patent Applications PCT/GB98/01773, PCT/GB99/03619, PCT7GB99/04030, PCT/GB99/04024, PCT/GB99/04028, PCT/GB00/00268 describe electroluminescent complexes, structures and devices using rare earth chelates.
- electroluminescent metal complexes have been based on a rare earth, transition metal, lanthanide or an actinide or have been quinolates such as aluminium quinolate.
- electroluminescent materials which do not include a rare earth, transition metal, lanthanide or an actinide.
- an electroluminescent compound which has the formula
- Ri, R 2 and R 3 which may be the same or different are selected from hydrogen, hydrocarbyl groups, substituted and unsubstituted aliphatic groups substituted and unsubstituted aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures, fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine or thiophenyl groups or nitrile; R ⁇ ; and R 3 can also be form ring structures and Ri, R and R can be copolymerisable with a monomer, e.g. styrene.
- the compounds of formula (I) can be coordinated with a neutral ligand such as L p To form a complex
- M is a metal
- n is the valency of M
- Lp is a neutral ligand
- the groups L can be selected from
- each Ph which can be the same or different and can be a phenyl (OPNP) or a substituted phenyl group, other substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic or polycyclic group, a substituted or unsubstituted fused aromatic group such as a naphthyl, anthracene, phenanthrene or pyrene group.
- the substituents can be for example an alkyl, aralkyl, alkoxy, aromatic, heterocyclic, polycyclic group, halogen such as fluorine, cyano, amino. Substituted amino etc. Examples are given in figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings where R, R ⁇ ; R 2 .
- R 3 and R can be the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, hydrocarbyl groups, substituted and unsubstituted aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures, fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine or thiophenyl groups;
- R, R ⁇ ( R 2> R 3 and R 4 can also form substituted and unsubstituted fused aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures and can be copolymerisable with a monomer e.g. styrene.
- R, Ri, R 2 , R 3 and R 4 can also be unsaturated alkylene groups such as vinyl groups or groups
- L p can also be compounds of formulae
- L p can also be Ph Ph
- L p chelates are as shown in figs. 1 1 and fluorene and fluorene derivatives e.g. a shown in figs. 12 and compounds of formulae as shown as shown in figs. 13 to 15.
- the invention also provides an electroluminescent device comprising (i) a first electrode, (ii) an electroluminescent layer comprising a layer of a complex of formula (I) and (iii) a second electrode.
- Ri and/or R 2 and/or R 3 include aliphatic, aromatic and heterocyclic alkoxy, aryloxy and carboxy groups, substituted and substituted phenyl, fluorophenyl, biphenyl, phenanthrene, anthracene, naphthyl and fluorene groups alkyl groups such as t-butyl, heterocyclic groups such as carbazole.
- Ri and R 2 are Phi and Ph 2 and at least one of Phi and Ph 2 is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic compound and the other Ph moiety is selected from hydrogen, and substituted and unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups such as substituted and unsubstituted aliphatic groups, substituted and unsubstituted aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures, fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine; substituted and unsubstituted fused aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures and can be copolymerisable with a monomer, e.g.
- styrene fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine.
- fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups
- halogens such as fluorine.
- examples include aliphatic, aromatic and heterocyclic alkoxy, aryloxy and carboxy groups, substituted and substituted phenyl, fluorophenyl, biphenyl, phenanthrene, anthracene, naphthyl and fluorene groups alkyl groups such as t-butyl, heterocyclic groups such as carbazole.
- Ri is methyl and R 2 is
- Preferred metals are metals other than aluminium, e.g. gallium, indium, germanium, tin (II), tin (IV), antimony (II), antimony (IV), lead (II), lead (IV) and metals of the first, second and third groups of transition metals in different valence states e.g. manganese, iron, ruthenium, osmium, cobalt, nickel, palladium(II), palladium(-N), platinum(II), platinum(IV), cadmium, cliromium.
- R 3 is preferably a phenyl or substituted phenyl group.
- the hole transmitting layer deposited on the transparent substrate and the electroluminescent material is deposited on the hole transmitting layer.
- the hole transmitting layer serves to transport holes and to block the electrons, thus preventing electrons from moving into the electrode without recombining with holes.
- the recombination of carriers therefore mainly takes place in the emitter layer.
- Hole transmitting layers are used in small molecule based polymer electroluminescent devices and in electroluminescent devices based on rare earth metal complexes and any of the known hole transmitting materials in film form can be used. Hole transmitting layers are used in polymer electroluminescent devices and any of the known hole transmitting materials in film form can be used.
- the hole transmitting layer can be made of a film of an aromatic amine complex such as poly (vinylcarbazole), N, N'-diphenyl-N, N'-bis (3-methylphenyl) -1,1 ' - biphenyl -4,4'-diamine (TPD), an unsubstituted or substituted polymer of an amino substituted aromatic compound, a polyaniline, substituted polyanilines, polythiophenes, substituted polythiophenes, polysilanes etc.
- aromatic amine complex such as poly (vinylcarbazole), N, N'-diphenyl-N, N'-bis (3-methylphenyl) -1,1 ' - biphenyl -4,4'-diamine (TPD), an unsubstituted or substituted polymer of an amino substituted aromatic compound, a polyaniline, substituted polyanilines, polythiophenes, substituted polythiophenes, polysilanes etc.
- R is in the ortho - or meta-position and is hydrogen, Cl-18 alkyl, Cl-6 alkoxy, amino, chloro, bromo, hydroxy or the group
- R is alky or aryl and R' is hydrogen, Cl-6 alkyl or aryl with at least one other monomer of formula I above.
- XII where p is from 1 to 10 and n is from 1 to 20, R is as defined above and X is an anion, preferably selected from CI, Br, SO 4 , BF 4 , PF 6 , H 2 PO 3 , H 2 PO 4 , arylsulphonate, arenedicarboxylate, polystyrenesulphonate, polyacrylate alkysulphonate, vinylsulphonate, vinylbenzene sulphonate, cellulosesulphonate, camphor sulphonates, cellulose sulphate or a perfluorinated polyanion.
- arylsulphonates are p-toluenesulphonate, benzenesulphonate, 9,10- anthraquinone-sulphonate and antliracenesulphonate, an example of an arenedicarboxylate is phthalate and an example of arenecarboxylate is benzoate.
- evaporable de-protonated polymers of unsubstituted or substituted polymer of an amino substituted aromatic compound are used.
- the de-protonated unsubstituted or substituted polymer of an amino substituted aromatic compound can be formed by deprotonating the polymer by treatment with an alkali such as ammonium hydroxide or an alkali metal hydroxide such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
- the degree of protonation can be controlled by forming a protonated polyaniline and de-protonating. Methods of preparing polyanilines are described in the article by A. G. MacDiarmid and A. F. Epstein, Faraday Discussions, Chem Soc.88 P319 1989.
- the conductivity of the polyaniline is dependent on the degree of protonation with the maximum conductivity being when the degree of protonation is between 40 and 60%, e.g. about 50%.
- the polymer is substantially fully de-protonated.
- a polyaniline can be formed of octamer units i.e. p is four, e.g.
- the polyanilines can have conductivities of the order of 1 x 10 " Siemen cm " or higher.
- the aromatic rings can be unsubstituted or substituted, e.g. by a CI to 20 alkyl group such as ethyl.
- the polyaniline can be a copolymer of aniline and preferred copolymers are the copolymers of aniline with o-anisidine, m-sulphanilic acid or o-aminophenol, or o- toluidine with o-aminophenol, o-ethylaniline, o-phenylene diamine or with amino anthracenes.
- polymers of an amino substituted aromatic compound which can be used include substituted or unsubstituted polyaminonapthalenes, polyaminoanthracenes, polyaminophenanthrenes, etc. and polymers of any other condensed polyaiOmatic compound.
- Polyaminoanthracenes and methods of making them are disclosed in US Patent 6,153,726.
- the aromatic rings can be unsubstituted or substituted, e.g. by a group R as defined above.
- the polyanilines can be deposited on the first electrode by conventional methods, e.g. by vacuum evaporation, spin coating, chemical deposition, direct electrodeposition etc.
- the thickness of the polyaniline layer is such that the layer is conductive and transparent and is preferably from 20nm to 200nm.
- the ployanilines can be doped or undoped. When they are doped they can be dissolved in a solvent and deposited as a film, when they are undoped they are solids and can be deposited by vacuum evaporation i.e. by sublimation.
- R, Ri, R 2 and R 3 can be the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, and substituted and unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups such as substituted and unsubstituted aliphatic groups, substituted and unsubstituted aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures, fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine or thiophenyl groups; Ri, R 2 and R 3 can also form substituted and unsubstituted fused aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures and can be copolymerisable with a monomer, e.g.
- styrene X is Se, S or O
- Y can be hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups, such as substituted and unsubstituted aromatic, heterocyclic and polycyclic ring structures, fluorine, fluorocarbons such as trifluoryl methyl groups, halogens such as fluorine or thiophenyl groups or nitrile.
- Ri and/or R 2 and/or R 3 include aliphatic, aromatic and heterocyclic alkoxy, aryloxy and carboxy groups, substituted and substituted phenyl, fluorophenyl, biphenyl, phenanthrene, anthracene, naphthyl and fluorene groups alkyl groups such as t-butyl, heterocyclic groups such as carbazole.
- the hole transporting material can optionally be mixed with the electroluminescent material in a ratio of 5 - 95% of the electroluminescent material to 95 to 5% of the hole transporting compound.
- hole transporting materials which can be used are conjugated polymers.
- US Patent 5807627 discloses an electroluminescence device in which there are conjugated polymers in the electroluminescent layer.
- the conjugated polymers referred to are defined as polymers for which the main chain is either fully conjugated possessing extended pi molecular orbitals along the length of the chain or else is substantially conjugated, but with interruptions to conjugation, either random or regular along the main chain. They can be homopolymers or copolymers.
- the conjugated polymer used can be any of the conjugated polymers disclosed or referred to in US 5807627, PCT/WO90/13148 and PCT/WO92/03490.
- the conjugated polymers disclosed are poly (p-phenylenevinylene)-PPV and copolymers including PPV.
- Other preferred polymers are poly(2,5 dialkoxyphenylene vinylene) such as poly (2-methoxy-5-(2-methoxypentyloxy-l,4- phenyl ene vinylene), poly(2-methoxypentyloxy)-l,4-phenylenevinylene), poly(2- methoxy-5-(2-dodecyloxy-l,4-phenylenevinylene) and other poly(2,5 dialkoxyphenylenevinylenes) with at least one of the alkoxy groups being a long chain solubilising alkoxy group, poly fluorenes and oligofluorenes, polyphenylenes and oligophenylenes, polyanthracenes and oligo anthracenes, ploythiophenes and oligothiophenes.
- the phenylene ring may optionally cany one or more substituents, e.g. each independently selected from alkyl, preferably methyl, alkoxy, preferably methoxy or ethoxy.
- substituents e.g. each independently selected from alkyl, preferably methyl, alkoxy, preferably methoxy or ethoxy.
- Any poly(arylenevinylene) including substituted derivatives thereof can be used and the phenylene ring in poly(p- ⁇ henylenevinylene) may be replaced by a fused ring system such as anthracene or naphthlyene ring and the number of vinylene groups in each polyphenylenevinylene moeity can be increased, e.g. up to 7 or higher.
- the conjugated polymers can be made by the methods disclosed in US 5807627, PCT/WO90/13148 and PCT/WO92/03490.
- the hole transmitting material and the light emitting metal compound can be mixed to fo ⁇ i one layer, e.g. in an proportion of 5 to 95% of the hole transmitting material to 95 to 5% of the light emitting metal compound.
- Electron transmitting materials include a metal complex such as a metal quinolate, e.g. an aluminium quinolate, lithium quinolate, a cyano anthracene such as 9,10 dicyano anthracene, a polystyrene sulphonate and compounds of formulae shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
- a metal complex such as a metal quinolate, e.g. an aluminium quinolate, lithium quinolate, a cyano anthracene such as 9,10 dicyano anthracene, a polystyrene sulphonate and compounds of formulae shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
- the electron transmitting material can be mixed with the electroluminescent material to form one layer, e.g. in a proportion of 5 to 95% of the electron transmitting material to 95 to 5% of the light emitting metal compound.
- the electroluminescent layer can comprise a mixture of the light emitting metal compound with the hole transmitting material and electron transmitting material.
- the electroluminescent material can be deposited on the substrate directly by vacuum evaporation or evaporation from a solution in an organic solvent.
- the solvent which is used will depend on the material but chlorinated hydrocarbons such as dichloromethane and n-methyl pyrrolidone; dimethyl sulphoxide; tetra hydrofuran; dimethylformamide etc. are suitable in many cases.
- electroluminescent material can be deposited by spin coating from solution, or by vacuum deposition from the solid state, e.g. by sputtering, or any other conventional method can be used.
- the first electrode is a transparent substrate such as a conductive glass or plastic material which acts as the anode.
- Preferred substrates are conductive glasses such as indium tin oxide coated glass, but any glass which is conductive or has a transparent conductive layer such as a metal or conductive polymer can be used.
- Conductive polymers and conductive polymer coated glass or plastics materials can also be used as the substrate.
- the second electrode functions as the cathode and can be any low work function metal, e.g. aluminium, calcium, lithium, silver/magnesium alloys etc; aluminium is a preferred metal.
- the display of the invention may be monochromatic or polychromatic. Electroluminescent rare earth chelate compounds are known which will emit a range of colours, e.g. red, green, and blue light and white light and examples are disclosed in Patent Applications WO98/58037 PCT/GB98/01773, PCT/GB99/03619, PCT/GB99/04030, PCT/GB99/04024. PCT/GB99/04028, PCT/GB00/00268 and can be used to form OLEDs emitting those colours.
- a full colour display can be formed by arranging three individual backplanes, each emitting a different primary monochrome colour, on different sides of an optical system, from another side of which a combined colour image can be viewed.
- rare earth chelate electroluminescent compounds emitting different colours can be fabricated so that adjacent diode pixels in groups of three neighbouring pixels produce red, green and blue light.
- field sequential colour filters can be fitted to a white light emitting display.
- Electrodes can be formed of silicon and the electroluminescent material and intervening layers of a hole transporting and electron transporting materials can be formed as pixels on the silicon substrate.
- each pixel comprises at least one layer of a rare earth chelate electroluminescent material and an (at least semi-) transparent electrode in contact with the organic layer on a side thereof remote from the substrate.
- the substrate is of crystalline silicon and the surface of the substrate may be polished or smoothed to produce a flat surface prior to the deposition of electrode, or electroluminescent compound.
- a non-planarised silicon substrate can be coated with a layer of conducting polymer to provide a smooth, flat surface prior to deposition of further materials.
- each pixel comprises a metal electrode in contact with the substrate.
- metal electrode in contact with the substrate.
- either may serve as the anode with the other constituting the cathode.
- the cathode When the silicon substrate is the cathode an indium tin oxide coated glass can act as the anode and light is emitted through the anode.
- the cathode When the silicon substrate acts as the anode, the cathode can be formed of a transparent electrode which has a suitable work function, for example by a indium zinc oxide coated glass in which the indium zinc oxide has a low work flmction.
- the anode can have a transparent coating of a metal formed on it to give a suitable work function. These devices are sometimes referred to as top emitting devices or back emitting devices.
- the metal electrode may consist of a plurality of metal layers, for example a higher work function metal such as aluminium deposited on the substrate and a lower work function metal such as calcium deposited on the higher work function metal.
- a further layer of conducting polymer lies on top of a stable metal such as aluminium.
- the electrode also acts as a mirror behind each pixel and is either deposited on, or sunk into, the planarised surface of the substrate.
- the electrode may alternatively be a light absorbing black layer adjacent to the substrate.
- selective regions of a bottom conducting polymer layer are made non-conducting by exposure to a suitable aqueous solution allowing formation of arrays of conducting pixel pads which serve as the bottom contacts of the pixel electrodes.
- the brightness of light emitted from each pixel is preferably controllable in an analogue mamier by adjusting the voltage or current applied by the matrix circuitry or by inputting a digital signal which is converted to an analogue signal in each pixel circuit.
- the substrate preferably also provides data drivers, data converters and scan drivers for processing information to address the array of pixels so as to create images.
- an electroluminescent material which emits light of a different colour, depending on the applied voltage, the colour of each pixel can be controlled by the matrix circuitry .
- each pixel is controlled by a switch comprising a voltage controlled element and a variable resistance element, both of which are conveniently formed by metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) or by an active matrix transistor.
- MOSFETs metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors
- Example 1 The invention is illustrated in the examples.
- Example 1 The invention is illustrated in the examples.
- Example 1 The invention is illustrated in the examples.
- PL spectra was measured by Lot Oriel Multispec Model 77400 CCD Camera. The measurement was earned out from the powder by spreading the powder on a spectrosil plate.
- Example 4 The (Tb('BuPz) 3 of Example 4 was heated at reflux with diphenylphosphinic-azide in trimethyl pentane and the mixture heated to reflux until a clear solution was obtained (about 1 hour). The solution was allowed to clear yielding (Tb( l BuPz) 3 )di phenylphosponimidetris-phenylphosphorane, (Tb('BuPz) 3 OPNP [Tb(pyr) 3 OPNP] as a crystalline solid.
- ITO indium tin oxide
- Device 1 was fabricated by sequentially forming on the ITO, layers comprising ITO/ ⁇ -NPB(75nm)/ b( yr) 3 OPNP(50nm)/BCP(20nm)Alq 3 (40nm)LiF(0.5n /Al where ⁇ -NPB is in fig. 1 , BCP is bathocupron, LiF is lithium fluoride and Alq 3 is aluminium quinolate.
- Device 2 was fabricated by sequentially forming on the ITO, layers comprising ITO/ ⁇ -NPB(10nm)/Tb(pyr) 3 OPNP(50nm)/BCP(20nm)Alq 3 (40nm)LiF(0.7nm/Al
- Device 3 was fabricated by sequentially forming on the ITO, layers comprising ITO(100 ⁇ sqr)/CuPc(8nm)/ ⁇ -NPB(60nm)/Ca(pyr)2Phen 2 (50nm)/Alq 3 (10nm)/LiF(0.7nm)/Al where CuPc is copper phthalocyanine,
- Device 4 was fabricated by sequentially forming on the ITO, layers comprising ITO(100 ⁇ sqr)/CuPc(8nm) ⁇ -NPB(60nm)/Ca(pyr)2Phen 2 (10nm)/Al
- the organic coating on the portion which had been etched with, the concentrated hydrochloric acid was wiped with a cotton bud.
- the coated electrodes were stored in a vacuum desiccator over a molecular sieve and phosphorous pentoxide until they were loaded into a vacuum coater (Edwards, 10 " ton-) and aluminium top contacts made.
- the active area of the LED's was 0.08 cm2 by 0.1 cm 2 the devices were then kept in a vacuum desiccator until the electroluminescence studies were performed.
- the ITO electrode was always connected to the positive terminal.
- the current vs. voltage studies were carried out on a computer controlled Keithly 2400 source meter. Electroluminescence spectra were recorded by means of a computer controlled charge coupled device on PR650 system made by Photoresearch Inc.
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