Fast Synthesis of Iridium(III) Complexes Incorporating a Bis(diphenylphorothioyl)amide Ligand for Efficient Pure Green OLEDs.

Bis(diphenylphorothioyl)amide (Stpip) containing phosphor-sulfur (P═S) bonds was used as an ancillary ligand for three pure green iridium(III) emitters Ir1, Ir2, and Ir3, which were synthesized in few minutes at room temperature with high reaction yields above 70%. All these complexes show good thermal stability and excellent sublimation yields of around 80-90%, which are considered beneficial for industry practical production and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) fabrication. The emission profiles of these complexes meet the green standards of CIE1931 with coordinates of (0.33, 0.63), (0.33, 0.62), and (0.34, 0.62), respectively, and high photoluminescence quantum yields of up to 98% are achieved. Utilizing these complexes as emissive dopants, these OLEDs exhibited high current efficiency up to 91.94 cd A-1, external quantum efficiency up to 26.52%, and power efficiency up to 92.60 lm W-1 with very small efficiency roll-off, without adopting internal or external out-coupling methods. These results indicate that Stpip is a potentially suitable ligand scaffold for highly efficient phosphorescent Ir(III) emitters that endow corresponding OLEDs with high efficiency and small roll-off.

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