A series of bipolar anthracene derivatives containing triphenylamine as an electron donating group and pyridine, quinoline, isoquinoline and benzothiazole as electron withdrawing groups were synthesized and characterized. Particularly, a material, 9-quinolinyl-10-triphenylamin anthracene (3) exhibits a highly efficient sky-blue EL emission with the luminous efficiency (LE) of 9.36 cd/A, power efficiency (PE) of 5.94 lm/W and quantum efficiency (QE) of 4.23% at 500 nit. This material shows the maximum wavelength of the electroluminescence (EL) at 486 nm and the CIE x, y coordinates of (0.17, 0.36) at 6 V.

Red phosphorescent emitters were synthesized based on Ir(III) phenylquinoline complexes for applications to OLEDs. Ir(III) complexes 1-3 were based on 2-(biphenyl-3-yl)-quinoline units connected to various phenyl groups such as 5-phenyl, 5-(4-fluorophenyl), and 6-phenyl groups. The EL efficiencies were quite sensitive to the structural features of the dopants in the emitting layers. In particular, a high-efficiency red OLED was fabricated using complex 1 as the dopant in the emitting layer. This OLED showed a maximum luminance, luminous efficiency, power efficiency, external quantum efficiency and CIE(x,y) coordinates of 21,600 cd/m2 at 16 V, 11.80 cd/A at 20 mA/cm2, 3.57 Im/W at 20 mA/cm2, 10.90% at 20 mA/cm2, and (x = 0.63, y = 0.32) at 12 V, respectively.