Electroluminescent Diodes Using Cyclohexane-Based Glass Forming Liquid Crystals and Their Analogues

Abstract

Organic electroluminescent(EL) diodes using spin-coat films of cyclohexane-based glass-forming liquid crystal (LC) materials were fabricated. The cyclohexane-based LC materials were found to be useful for EL diodes. Blending the LC materials with charge transport molecules was found to be a promising method for improving device performance. Conventional hole transport and electron transport molecules were found to show a tendency to form exciplexes with cyclohexanebased LC materials. This difficulty was overcome by the introduction of cyclohexane-based charge transport molecules. The EL quantum efficiency of 0.06% was attained in the single-layer devices with two-component blends.