Low-voltage, high-efficiency blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices

Low-voltage, high-efficiency blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices based on a composite emitter, including a wide-band-gap host, a carrier-transporting material, and an organometallic iridium dopant, have been demonstrated. The devices exhibit an external quantum efficiency of 12%, a power efficiency of 17 lm/W and a low voltage of 4.8 V at a practical brightness of 1000 cd/m(2) with a CIEx,y of (0.16, 0.35), which was twofold higher than that of using the typical emitter composed of host and dopant only. The dramatic enhancement in performance can be attributed to the transport of carriers into the wide-band-gap host, which can be promoted through doping a carrier-transporting material in emitter for increasing carrier recombination. (c) 2008 American Institue of Physics.