Abstract: A tandem OLED includes an anode and a cathode. The OLED also includes at least two electroluminescent units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the electroluminescent units includes at least one hole-transporting layer and one organic light-emitting layer. An intermediate connector is disposed between adjacent electroluminescent units, wherein the intermediate connector includes an n-doped organic layer and an electron-accepting layer, the electron-accepting layer being disposed closer to the cathode than the n-doped organic layer, and wherein the electron-accepting layer includes one or more organic materials, each having a reduction potential greater than ?0.5 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and wherein the one or more organic materials constitute more than 50% by volume of the electron-accepting layer.

Abstract: An OLED includes an anode formed over a substrate and a contaminant-scavenging layer formed over the anode, wherein the contaminant-scavenging layer includes one or more organic materials but not a hexaazatriphenylene derivative, each having an electron-accepting property and a reduction potential greater than ?0.1 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and wherein the one or more organic materials provide more than 50% by mole ratio of the contaminant-scavenging layer. The OLED also includes an organic electroluminescent unit formed over the contaminant-scavenging layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent unit includes a hole-transporting layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transporting layer, and a cathode formed over the organic electroluminescent unit.

Abstract: A tandem OLED device having two spaced electrodes comprising first and second light-emitting units disposed between the electrodes wherein each light emitting unit has at least one light emitting layer with an intermediate connector disposed between each of the light-emitting units. The intermediate connector includes an electron accepting organic layer in contact with the first light emitting unit and an n-type doped organic layer in contact with the electron accepting organic layer and the second light-emitting unit. The n-type doped organic layer includes an organic gallium complex. The devices exhibit improved stability and little change in color when current density is varied.

Abstract: A tandem OLED device having two spaced electrodes comprising: first and second light-emitting units that produce different emission spectra disposed between the electrodes, the first light-emitting unit produces light that has multiple peaks at wavelengths longer than 500 nm and substantially no emission at wavelengths shorter than 480 nm, and the second light-emitting unit produces light that has substantial emission at wavelengths shorter than 500 nm; and an intermediate connector disposed between the light-emitting units.

Abstract: A tandem white light-emitting OLED device is disclosed comprising a spaced anode and cathode, a light reflector associated with either the anode or the cathode, and at least two white light emitting units. The first white light-emitting unit has a set of at least two emission peaks in the blue and yellow spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the first white light-emitting unit. The second white light-emitting unit is disposed closer to the reflector than the first white light-emitting unit and includes a set of at least three emission peaks in the blue, green, and red spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the second white light-emitting unit. An intermediate connector is disposed between the first and second white light-emitting units.

Abstract: An OLED device comprising, in sequence, an anode, a light-emitting layer that comprises a phosphorescent light-emitting organometallic compound, a hole-blocking layer, and a cathode, and between the hole-blocking layer and the cathode, a further layer containing a mixture of a first compound that is a tetracene compound that has the lowest LUMO value of the compounds in the layer, in an amount greater than or equal to 10% and less than 90% and a second compound that is a low voltage electron transport material, exhibiting a higher LUMO value than the first compound in an amount less than or equal to 90% and more than 10%.

Abstract: A white light-emitting OLED device having a spaced anode and cathode and comprising: a blue light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and cathode; a green light-emitting layer in contact with the blue light-emitting layer; a red light-emitting layer in contact with either the blue light-emitting layer or the green light-emitting layer; and an electron-transporting layer disposed between the light-emitting layers and the cathode, wherein the red light-emitting layer, green light-emitting layer, blue light-emitting layer, and the electron-transporting layer each include an independently selected anthracene compound.

Abstract: An OLED device comprises a light-emitting layer containing a hydrocarbon host material and a light-emitting material of Formula (1): wherein: each Ar represents an independently selected aromatic group; each R1 represents an independently selected alkyl group or aromatic group; n is 1 or 2; Za represents the atoms necessary to form an aromatic ring group; R represents hydrogen or a substituent group; Z represents hydrogen or a substituent group; and L1 and L2 represent independently selected substituent groups; provided that any two adjacent substituents of any of the above groups may join to form a ring.

Abstract: A method for use in making an OLED device by depositing lithium to form a lithium-doped organic layer comprising: providing multiple sources in the same vacuum chamber, at least one of which is for depositing organic material and another source for depositing lithium; and using such multiple sources to co-deposit lithium and the organic material to form the lithium-doped organic layer such that lithium provided by the lithium source does not contaminate other deposited organic layers in the OLED device.

Abstract: A white light-emitting OLED device comprising: an anode and a cathode; at least four light-emitting layers provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the four light-emitting layers produces a different emission spectrum when current passes between the anode and cathode, and such spectra combine to form white light; and wherein the four light-emitting layers include a red light-emitting layer, a yellow light-emitting layer, a blue light-emitting layer, and a green light-emitting layer, arranged such that: i) each of the light-emitting layers is in contact with at least one other light-emitting layer, ii) the blue light-emitting layer is in contact with the green light-emitting layer, and iii) the red light-emitting layer is in contact with only one other light-emitting layer.

Abstract: An OLED device including spaced anode and cathodes; at least one light-emitting layer, and a hole-transporting layer disposed between the anode and the light-emitting layer; and a first electron-transporting layer in contact with at least one light-emitting layer and a second electron-transporting layer in contact with the first electron-transporting layer, wherein the first and second electron-transporting layers are disposed between the at least one light-emitting layer and the cathode, wherein: the first electron-transporting layer contains an anthracene compound; and the second electron-transporting layer contains an anthracene compound and at least one salt or complex of an element selected from Group 1, 2, 12 or 13 of the Periodic Table, and is further doped with an alkali metal.

Abstract: A broadband-emitting OLED device having an anode and a cathode spaced from the anode includes a first light-emitting layer provided over the anode and containing a first host material and a first light-emitting material, wherein the first host material is a mixture of one or more mono-anthracene derivatives and one or more aromatic amine derivatives, wherein the mono-anthracene derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 5% to 50% relative to the total host volume, and the aromatic amine derivative(s) being provided in a volume fraction range of 50% to 95% relative to the total host volume, and a second light-emitting layer provided over or under the first light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A tandem white OLED device includes an anode, a cathode, and a plurality of organic electroluminescence units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each organic electroluminescence unit includes at least one light-emitting layer, and wherein each organic electroluminescence unit emits white light. The device also includes an intermediate connector disposed between each adjacent organic electroluminescence unit, wherein the intermediate connector includes at least two different layers, and wherein the intermediate connector has no direct connection to an external power source.

Abstract: A white light-emitting OLED device including spaced anode and cathode, and having blue light-emitting and yellow, orange, or red light-emitting layers, the blue light-emitting layer including a monoanthracene derivative of Formula (I) as a host material: wherein R1-R8 are H; R9 is not the same as R10; R9 is a naphthyl group having no fused rings with aliphatic carbon ring members; and R10 is a biphenyl group having no fused rings with aliphatic carbon ring members; provided that R9 and R10 are free of amines and sulfur compounds.

Abstract: A color OLED display having at least three different colored microcavity pixels including a light-reflective structure and a semitransparent structure comprising an array of light-emitting microcavity pixels each having one or more common organic light-emitting layers, said light-emitting layer(s) having first, second, and third light-emitting materials that produce different light spectra. The first light-emitting material producing light has a first spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a first color of the array, the second light-emitting material producing light has a second spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a second color that is different from the first color, and the third light-emitting material producing light has a third spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a third color that is different from the first and second colors.

Abstract: A stabilized white-light-emitting OLED device includes an anode, a cathode, a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a stabilizing substituted perylene material, so that the lifetime of the white-light-emitting OLED device is increased.

Abstract: A method of forming a compacted pellet of organic materials adaptable for making an organic layer on a structure which will form part of an OLED display, includes providing a sublimable organic material in a powder form; providing a thermally insulating and non-sublimable inorganic material in a powder form; forming a mixture of the sublimable organic powder and thermally insulating and non-sublimable inorganic powder; placing such mixture into a die and using two punches, a lower and an upper punch, to apply sufficient pressure to the mixture to cause the mixture of powders to consolidate into a solid pellet; applying heat to the die during or prior to applying pressure by the opposing punches to aid in causing the mixture of powders to consolidate into a solid compacted pellet, and removing the pellet from the die.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising a host material and a rubrene derivative having a naphthacene nucleus comprising four fused phenyl rings a, b, c, and d, in order, containing two secondary phenyl ring groups linked to the “c” ring, each bearing directly or indirectly a fluoro or perfluoroalkyl group, wherein each fluoro or perfluoroalkyl group is either: a) linked directly to one of said secondary phenyl rings and is located on a meta or ortho position, or b) located in any position of another aryl group linked directly or indirectly to one of the secondary phenyl rings.

Abstract: An OLED device includes an anode, a first light-emitting layer disposed over the anode, and a second light-emitting layer disposed over the first light-emitting layer. The device also includes a metal-doped organic layer containing an organic electron-transporting material and a low work function metal disposed over the second light-emitting layer, and a cathode disposed over the metal-doped organic layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED device comprising a light-emitting layer (LEL) containing a host and an emitting dopant located between a cathode and an anode wherein the dopant is a naphthacene derivative represented by formula (I): wherein: a) said naphthacene derivative contains at least one fluorine or fluorine containing group; and b) when exactly two fluorine containing groups are present said groups are not located at the 5- and 12-positions or at the 6- and 11-positions.