Highly efficient bipolar host material based-on indole and triazine moiety for red phosphorescent light-emitting diodes

Two novel indole-based, bipolar, host materials were designed and synthesized by introducing the triazine unit to the 5-position of indole moiety with a meta -linking strategy. The two host materials exhibited excellence bipolar transport abilities and the meta-linking analog presented a high T g value (>120 °C). Furthermore, their electrochemical and photo-physical properties were also fully characterized and all the results exhibited that the meta -linking strategy made a significant effect on the physical properties of the two hosts. Moreover, the PHOLED devices using 9-(4-(5-(3-(4,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)phenyl)- 1H -indol-1-yl) phenyl)- 9H -carbazole and 9-(4-(5-(4-(4,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)phenyl)- 1H -indol-1-yl)phenyl)- 9H -carbazole as hosts were also fabricated to evaluate the practical utilities of host materials. The devices achieved the maximum external quantum efficiencies of 17.53% for para -linking compound and 14.53% for meta -linking analog, respectively. In particular, para -linking compound based device revealed the maximum external quantum efficiency was twice that of the device using 4,4′-bis( N -carbazolyl)-1,10-biphenyl as the host.