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US 12,312,522 · App. 15/128,099 · Granted May 27, 2025

Organic optoelectronic apparatus

Inventors: Dominik Pentlehner (Regensburg, DE); Andreas Rausch (Regensburg, DE)
Assignee: Pictiva Displays International Limited
C09K11/06H10K50/125H10K50/13H10K50/131H10K85/611H10K85/615H10K85/622H10K85/6565H10K85/6572C09K2211/1007C09K2211/1011C09K2211/1029C09K2211/1048H10K50/11H10K50/15H10K50/16H10K50/17H10K50/171H10K85/633H10K85/654H10K2101/10
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Patent No.
US 12,312,522
App. No.
15/128,099
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic apparatus comprising: a first electrode ( 2 ), a radiation-emitting region ( 4 ) arranged between the first and second electrodes, and a second electrode ( 9 ), wherein the first and second electrodes can inject charge carriers of different polarity into the radiation-emitting region, wherein the radiation-emitting region ( 4 ) has a dual emitter and a further emitter, wherein the further emitter is transferred by the charge carrier into an electronically excited state and, on the transition into the basic electronic state from this electronically excited state, emits radiation, and wherein the dual emitter has a first electronically excited state and a second electronically excited state, which can be reached from the first electronically excited state by intramolecular proton transfer or intramolecular charge transfer, and the dual emitter has an emission starting from the second electronically excited state into a second basic state. The radiation emitted by this apparatus has an improved CRI value owing to the simultaneous use of a dual emitter and a further emitter.

Claims (18)

1. An organic optoelectronic apparatus for the emission of white light, comprising:

a first electrode,

a second electrode,

a radiation-emitting region arranged between the first and second electrode,

wherein the first and second electrodes can inject charge carriers of different polarity into the radiation-emitting region,

wherein the radiation-emitting region comprises two different dual emitters,

wherein the radiation-emitting region comprises a first radiation-emitting layer and a second radiation-emitting layer and each of the radiation-emitting layers comprises one dual emitter,

wherein each one of the dual emitters comprises a first electronically excited state and a second electronically excited state which can be achieved from the first electronically excited state,

wherein the dual emitters each comprise an emission starting from the first electronically excited state and second electronically excited state into a first basic electronic state and a second basic electronic state respectively,

wherein each of the dual emitters comprises a molecule that is selected from one of the following general formulas:

wherein R 1 to R 15 are hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl groups, long-chain alkyl, alkoxy, long-chain alkoxy, cycloalkyl, haloalkyl, aryl, arylenes, haloaryl, heteroaryl, heteroarylenes, heterocycloalkylenes, heterocycloalkyl, haloheteroaryl, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkinyl, haloalkinyl, ketoaryl, haloketoaryl, ketoheteroaryl, ketoalkyl, haloketoalkyl, ketoalkenyl, haloketoalkenyl, or part of a cyclic, aromatic, or heteroaromatic system and

wherein a superimposition of the radiations from each of the radiation-emitting layers produces white light.

2. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each dual emitter of the two different dual emitters in the radiation-emitting region emits fluorescent radiation.

3. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein for each one of the dual emitters, an intramolecular charge transfer from the first electronically excited state to the second electronically excited state is effected more rapidly than a radiation-emitting decomposition starting from the first electronically excited state to a first basic electronic state.

4. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a transition starting from the second basic electronic state of each one of the dual emitters to a first basic electronic state is more rapid than a radiating transition starting from the second electronically excited state to the second basic electronic state.

5. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first radiation-emitting layer and the second radiation-emitting layer are separated from one another by an intermediate layer that comprises either a charge generation layer or a charge carrier-transporting layer.

6. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each one of the dual emitters comprises molecules of the following general formula:

7. The organic optoelectronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each one of the dual emitters comprises molecules of the following general formula:

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 11, 2020
From: OSRAM OLED GMBH
To: DOLYA HOLDCO 5 LIMITED
Reel/Frame 053464/0374 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE 11/658.772 REPLACED 11/658.772 PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 053464 FRAME: 0395. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Aug 11, 2020
From: DOLYA HOLDCO 5 LIMITED
To: PICTIVA DISPLAYS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Reel/Frame 053464/0395 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2017
From: PENTLEHNER, DOMINIK; RAUSCH, ANDREAS
To: OSRAM OLED GMBH
Reel/Frame 042347/0511 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 102014103943.2 · Mar 21, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170125695A1 · May 4, 2017
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