摘要
A new blue-emitting carbazole derivative, 3,6-dipyrenyl-9-ethylcarbazole (DPEC), has been designed and synthesized for applications in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). Undoped DPEC-based OLEDs give a saturated blue electroluminescence with Commission Internationale de L鈥橢clairage 1931 coordinates of (0.15, 0.18), and possess high luminous efficiency of 4.75 cd A鈭?. On the other hand, DPEC can also function as a hole-transporting layer (HTL). In particular, by replacing N,N鈥?diphenyl-1,1鈥?biphenyl-4,4鈥?diamine (NPB) as HTL, a simplified bilayer device demonstrated good performance, comparable to that of the trilayer device. This good device performance illustrates that DPEC is a promising candidate as a blue hole-transporting emitter.