Abstract In this work, three novel bipolar host materials TPA-SA, 3CBZ-SA and 4CBZ-SA have been designed and synthesized by incorporating triphenyl amine and carbazole as donor and benzothiadiazine 1,1-dioxide as… Click to show full abstract
Abstract In this work, three novel bipolar host materials TPA-SA, 3CBZ-SA and 4CBZ-SA have been designed and synthesized by incorporating triphenyl amine and carbazole as donor and benzothiadiazine 1,1-dioxide as an acceptor. These molecules exhibit moderately high triplet energies and bipolar carrier transport characteristics (ambipolarity) which is useful for the exothermic energy transfer to the dopants and also for the balanced carrier injection/transport in the emissive layers. These materials exhibited good performances in PhOLEDs and furnished external quantum efficiency in the range of 10.0–15.0%. Notably, a red phosphorescent device using TPA-SA as the host doped with Ir(pq)2(acac) exhibited a maximum EQE, power efficiency and current efficiency of 15.0%, 16.0 lm/W, and 25.3 cd A−1, respectively.
               
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