Solubilised bright blue-emitting iridium complexes for solution processed OLEDs

Adam F. Henwood; Ashu K. Bansal; David B. Cordes; Alexandra M. Z. Slawin; Ifor D. W. Samuel; Eli Zysman-Colman

doi:10.1039/C6TC00151C

Solubilised bright blue-emitting iridium complexes for solution processed OLEDs

Adam F. Henwood, Ashu K. Bansal, David B. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman

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Combining a sterically bulky, electron-deficient 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-4-(2,4,6- trimethylphenyl)pyridine (dFMesppy) cyclometalating C^{^}N ligand with an electron rich, highly rigidified 1,1’-(α,α’-o-xylylene)-2,2’-biimidazole (o-xylbiim) N^{^}N ligand gives an iridium complex, [Ir(dFMesppy)₂(o-Xylbiim)](PF6), that achieves extraordinarily bright blue emission (Φ_PL = 90%; λ_max = 459 nm in MeCN) for a cationic iridium complex. This complex is compared with two reference complexes bearing 4,4’-di-tert-butyl-2,2’- bipyridine, and solution-processed organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been fabricated from these materials.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3726-3737
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume	4
Issue number	17
Early online date	4 Feb 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TC00151C
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016

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