White and Saturated Blue Phosphorescent OLED
based on the Non-Emissive Homoleptic Complex
Ir(ppz)3 as single active material

• Authors: Marc Lepeltier , Frédéric Dumur , Guillaume Wantz , Denis Bertin , Didier Gigmes , Cédric R. Mayer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The well-known homoleptic iridium (III) complex
Ir(ppz)3 which is only emissive in solution at low temperature
has been investigated as dopant in a p − i stacked
OLED architecture. Interestingly, while using this phosphor
as a single emitter, awhite OLED was obtained. Emission
colour was determined as being concentration and
thickness-dependent.

Keywords

EN

OLEDs; iridium; photoluminescence; electroluminescence; metal complex

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Optical Data Processing and Storage
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

10 - 7 - 2013

accepted

26 - 10 - 2013

online

27 - 2 - 2014

Contributors

author

Marc Lepeltier

• Institut Lavoisier de Versailles ILV – UMR CNRS
  8180, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 45 avenue
  des Etats Unis, 78035 Versailles, France

author

Frédéric Dumur

• Aix-Marseille Université,
  CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, F-13397 Marseille,
  France,
• Univ. Bordeaux, IMS, UMR
  5218, F-33400 Talence, France
• CNRS, IMS, UMR 5218,
  F-33400 Talence, France

author

Guillaume Wantz

• Univ. Bordeaux, IMS, UMR 5218, F-33400 Talence,
  France
• CNRS, IMS, UMR 5218, F-33400 Talence, France

author

Denis Bertin

• Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut
  de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, F-13397 Marseille, France

author

Didier Gigmes

• Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut
  de Chimie Radicalaire, UMR 7273, F-13397 Marseille, France

author

Cédric R. Mayer

• Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systcmes de Versailles
  LISV – EA 4048, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en
  Yvelines, 10/12 avenue de l’Europe, 78140 Vélizy, France,

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/odps-2014-0002