IP Library Granted Patent US 11,038,127
Granted Patent B2
US 11,038,127 · App. 14/895,486 · Granted Jun 15, 2021

Optoelectronic component, organic functional layer, and method for producing an optoelectronic component

Inventors: Arndt Jaeger (Regensburg, DE); Günter Schmid (Hemhofen, DE)
Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
H01L51/0091H01L51/006H01L51/009H01L51/0051H01L51/0072H01L51/001H01L51/0058H01L51/506H01L51/5056H01L51/5088H01L51/5096H01L51/56
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Patent No.
US 11,038,127
App. No.
14/895,486
Granted
Jun 15, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optoelectronic component includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one organic functional layer, which is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic functional layer includes a matrix material, a first compound, and a second compound. The first compound interacts with the second compound, and the first compound and/or the second compound interacts with the matrix material. A conductivity of the organic functional layer is produced by the interactions.

Claims (48)

1. An optoelectronic component comprising:

a substrate;

a first electrode;

a second electrode; and

an organic functional layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic functional layer comprising a matrix material, a first compound, and a second compound,

wherein the first compound interacts with the second compound,

wherein the first compound and/or the second compound interacts with the matrix material,

wherein the interactions generate conductivity in the organic functional layer,

wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the matrix material, or at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the second compound with the matrix material,

wherein the first compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of the following structural units or formula:

wherein, in formulae I and II, R 1 , R 1′ , R 2a , R 2a′ , R 2b , R 2b′ , R 2c , R 2c′ , R 2d , and R 2d′ , independently of one another and each is selected from the group consisting of unbranched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, branched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, fused unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, cyclic unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, substituted and unsubstituted aromatics, and substituted and unsubstituted heteroaromatics,

wherein, in formulae III, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are identical or unidentical and each is selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted alkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted heterocycloalkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted aryl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl radicals, and combinations thereof,

wherein, in formulae III, X is chromium, molybdenum, bismuth or Cu and Cr, and wherein the second compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of dipyrazino[2,3-f:2′,3′-h]quinoxaline-2,3,6,7,10,11-hexacarbonitrile, 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquiono-dimethane, 2,3-di(N-phthalimido)-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone, pyrazino[2,3-f][1,10]phenanthroline-2,3-dicarbonitrile and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof, and tetracyanonaphthoquinodimethane and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof.

2. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the organic functional layer comprises a layer selected from the group consisting of a hole transport layer, a hole injection layer, and a hole blocking layer.

3. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the conductivity of the organic functional layer is greater than a sum of a first conductivity, generated by sole interaction of the first compound with the matrix material, and of a second conductivity, generated by sole interaction of the second compound with the matrix material.

4. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the first compound comprises an electron acceptor in relation to the matrix material and/or an electron acceptor in relation to the second compound.

5. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the second compound comprises an electron acceptor in relation to the matrix material and/or an electron donor in relation to the first compound.

6. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein a third compound is generated by complexing of first and second compounds in a gas phase, the third compound produced by simultaneous vaporization from different sources of the first compound, of the second compound and of the matrix material.

7. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the second compound comprises an aromatic and/or heteroaromatic that has at least two functional groups that are capable of forming a coordinate bond and/or of π-π interaction.

8. The optoelectronic component according to claim 7 , wherein the functional groups comprises functional groups selected from the group consisting of amine, phosphine, phenol, thiol, cyano, isocyano, cyanato, nitrato, carboxylato, fluorinated carboxylato, acetylacetonate, fluorinated acetylacetonate, carbonal, amide, imide, thienyl, fluoro, and combinations thereof.

9. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the first compound forms at least one coordinate bond with the second compound, to give a chainlike structure and/or a netlike structure.

10. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the matrix material.

11. The optoelectronic component according to claim 1 , wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the second compound with the matrix material.

12. An organic functional layer comprising:

a matrix material;

a first compound; and

a second compound,

wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the matrix material or wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the second compound with the matrix material,

wherein the first compound forms an electron donor-electron acceptor complex with the second compound via at least one coordinate bond,

wherein the first compound and/or the second compound, as electron acceptor or as electron acceptors, interact with the matrix material,

wherein the interactions and the electron donor-electron acceptor complex generate conductivity in the organic functional layer,

wherein the first compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of the following structural units or formula:

wherein, in formulae I and II, R 1 , R 1′ , R 2a , R 2a′ , R 2b , R 2b′ , R 2c , R 2c′ , R 2d and R 2d′ independently of one another and each is selected from the group consisting of unbranched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, branched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, fused unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, cyclic unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, substituted and unsubstituted aromatics, and substituted and unsubstituted heteroaromatics,

wherein, in formulae III, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are identical or unidentical and each is selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted alkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted heterocycloalkyl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted aryl radicals, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl radicals, and combinations thereof,

wherein, in formulae III, X is chromium, molybdenum, bismuth or Cu and Cr, and wherein the second compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of dipyrazino[2,3f:2′,3′-h]quinoxaline-2,3,6,7,10,11-hexacarbonitrile, 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquiono-dimethane, 2,3-di(N-phthalimido)-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone, pyrazino[2,3-f][1,10]phen-anthroline-2,3-dicarbonitrile and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof, and tetracyanonaphthoquinodimethane and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof.

13. The organic functional layer according to claim 12 , wherein the conductivity of the organic functional layer is greater than a sum of a first conductivity, generated by sole interaction of the first compound with the matrix material, and of a second conductivity, generated by sole interaction of the second compound with the matrix material.

14. An optoelectronic component comprising:

a substrate;

a first electrode;

a second electrode; and

an organic functional layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic functional layer comprising a matrix material, a first compound, and a second compound,

wherein the first compound interacts with the second compound,

wherein the first compound and/or the second compound interacts with the matrix material,

wherein the interactions generate conductivity in the organic functional layer,

wherein at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the matrix material, or at least one coordinate bond is formed by the first compound with the second compound and at least one coordinate bond is formed by the second compound with the matrix material,

wherein the first compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of the following structural units or formula:

wherein, in formulae I and II, R 1 , R 1′ , R 2a , R 2a′ , R 2b , R 2b′ , R 2c , R 2c′ , R 2d , and R 2d′ , independently of one another and each is selected from the group consisting of unbranched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, branched unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, fused unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, cyclic unsubstituted and substituted alkyl radicals, substituted and unsubstituted aromatics, and substituted and unsubstituted heteroaromatics,

wherein the second compound comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of dipyrazino[2,3- f: 2′,3′-h]quinoxaline-2,3,6,7,10,11-hexacarbonitrile, 2,3-di(N-phthalimido)-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone, and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof, and tetracyanonaphthoquinodimethane and fluorinated or unfluorinated derivatives thereof.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Feb 17, 2026
From: OSRAM OLED GMBH
To: AMS-OSRAM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Reel/Frame 074881/0104 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 26, 2016
From: JAEGER, ARNDT; SCHMID, GÜNTER
To: OSRAM OLED GMBH
Reel/Frame 037588/0509 →