Acridine-Triphenylamine Based Hole-Transporting and Hole-Injecting Material for Highly Efficient Phosphorescent-Based Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Abstract

In this study, triphenylamine-based hole-transporting material 4-(9,9-diphenylacridin-10(9H)-yl)-N-(4-(9,9-diphenylacridin-10(9H)-yl) phenyl)-N-phenylaniline (TPA-1A) was designed and synthesized by using single-step Buchwald–Hartwig coupling reaction with higher yield percentage of 76%. Our synthesized TPA-1A showed excellent thermal stability, with a higher glass transition temperature of 176 °C and decomposition temperature of 474 °C at 5% weight reduction. TPA-1A based green phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PhOLED) device was fabricated to investigate the device properties and compare it with the similar reference N,N′-Di(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine (NPB)based device. The TPA-1A-based PhOLED demonstrated an excellent current and power efficiency of 49.13 cd/A and 27.56 lm/W, respectively. Moreover, TPA-1A demonstrated better hole injection efficiencies as well. The overall efficiencies were better than the reference NPB-based device.