Organic light-emitting device and electronic apparatus including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12484373-B2
Application number	US-202318302105-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2023
Priority date	Jul 31, 2019
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

Provided are an organic light-emitting device satisfying a certain range of [Q(t=T50)]Polaron and an electronic apparatus including the organic light-emitting device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An organic light-emitting device comprising:
a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer comprises an emission layer, wherein the emission layer comprises a dopant and a host, the dopant and the host are different from each other, and an amount of the dopant is equal to or greater than about 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the emission layer, wherein the dopant is a phosphorescent dopant comprising a transition metal and at least one bidentate ligand, and at least one bidentate ligand among the at least one bidentate ligand comprises a carbene moiety bound to the transition metal via a coordinate bond, and [Q(t=T 50 )] Polaron of the organic light-emitting device is greater than 0 cm −3 and equal to or less than about 3.30×10 17 cm −3 , [Q(t=T 50 )] Polaron is a density of a quencher produced by a polaron in the organic light-emitting device during driving the organic light-emitting device at 500 nit at a time at which a luminance becomes 50% of an initial luminance, and Q(t=T 50 )] Polaron is calculated i) by obtaining a curve of time versus driving voltage variation by measuring driving voltage variation of the organic light-emitting device over the time (t) at which a luminance becomes 50% of the initial luminance, ii) by fitting a rate equation of quencher production from the curve of the time versus driving voltage variation, and iii) from a 0th term for a density of excitons in the rate equation of the quencher production.

2 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein
[Q(t=T 50 )] Polaron is greater than 0 cm −3 and equal to or less than about 1.95×10 17 cm −3 .

3 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 ,
wherein [Q(t=T 50 )] Polaron is greater than 0 cm −3 and equal to or less than about 1.88×10 17 cm −3 .

4 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein
[Q(t=T 50 )] Environmental of the organic light-emitting device is greater than 0 cm −3 and less than about 2.10×10 17 cm −3 , [Q(t=T 50 )] Environmental is a density of a quencher produced by an external environmental factor in the organic light-emitting device during driving the organic light-emitting device at 500 nit at a time at which a luminance becomes 50% of an initial luminance, and Q(t=T 50 )] Environmental is calculated i) by obtaining a curve of time versus driving voltage variation by measuring driving voltage variation of the organic light-emitting device over the time (t) at which the luminance becomes 50% of the initial luminance, ii) by fitting a rate equation of quencher production from the curve of the time versus driving voltage variation, and iii) by performing an additional fitting to a rapid increase of the driving voltage at an initial driving voltage variation.

5 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 4 , wherein the external environmental factor is oxygen, moisture, or any combination thereof.

6 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 5 , wherein an amount of the external environmental factor is greater than 0 ppm and equal to or less than about 1,000 ppm.

7 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 4 , wherein [Q(t=T 50 )] Environmental is greater than 0 cm −3 and equal to or less than about 1.30×10 17 cm −3 .

8 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the phosphorescent dopant emits blue light.

9 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the phosphorescent dopant emits blue light having a CIEx coordinate from about 0.13 to about 0.17 and a CIEy coordinate from about 0.20 to about 0.30.

10 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the host comprises at least one cyano group and at least one carbazole group.

11 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the organic layer further comprises a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, the hole transport region comprises a hole injection layer, and the hole injection layer consists of a p-dopant.

12 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein
the organic layer further comprises a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, the hole transport region comprises a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a first electron blocking layer, and a second electron blocking layer, which are sequentially stacked on the first electrode, and the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer, the first electron blocking layer, and the second electron blocking layer each comprise a compound and the compounds of the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer, the first electron blocking layer, and the second electron blocking layer are different from each other.

13 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 12 , wherein compounds of the hole transport layer, the first electron blocking layer, and the second electron blocking layer each comprise a carbazole-containing compound, and the and the carbazole-containing compounds of the hole transport layer, the first electron blocking layer, and the second electron blocking layer are different from each other.

14 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the organic layer further comprises an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, and the electron transport region comprises a phosphine oxide-containing compound.

15 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein
the organic layer further comprises an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, the electron transport region comprises a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer, which are sequentially stacked on the emission layer, the hole blocking layer consists of a first material, the electron transport layer comprises the first material and a second material, the electron injection layer consists of the second material, the first material included in the hole blocking layer and the first material included in the electron transport layer are identical to each other, and the second material included in the electron transport layer and the second material included in the electron injection layer are identical to each other.

16 . An electronic apparatus comprising the organic light-emitting device of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Seoul Nat Univ R&Db Foundation

Inventors

• Kim Jong Soo
• Kim Jang-Joo
• Sim Bomi
• Kang Hosuk
• Kwon Eunsuk
• Kim Sunghan
• Kim Joonghyuk
• Nam Sungho
• Bae Hyejin
• Ihn Sooghang

Classifications

• H10K50/181

  Electron blocking layers · CPC title

• H10K2101/10

  Triplet emission · CPC title

• H10K2101/00

  Properties of the organic materials covered by group H10K85/00 · CPC title

• H10K85/6574

  comprising only oxygen in the heteroaromatic polycondensed ring system, e.g. cumarine dyes · CPC title

• H10K85/633

  comprising polycyclic condensed aromatic hydrocarbons as substituents on the nitrogen atom · CPC title