With three carbazole units attached to the benzene ring, 1,3,5-tris(carbazol-9-yl)benzene (tCP) is electron-rich and an excellent hole-transporting layer (HTL) material. It is mainly used as a phosphorescent host material for light-emitting diodes.
General Information
CAS number | 148044-07-9 |
Chemical formula | C42H27N3 |
Molecular weight | 573.68 g/mol |
Absorption | λmax 292, 337 nm (THF) |
Fluorescence | λem 343, 358 nm (THF) |
HOMO/LUMO | HOMO = 5.8 eV, LUMO = 2.3 eV |
Synonyms |
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Classification / Family | Carbazole derivatives, Hole-injection materials, Hole-transporting materials, Phosphorescent host materials, Organic light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs), Organic electronics, Sublimed materials. |
Product Details
Purity | >99.0% (sublimed) >98.0% (unsublimed) |
Melting point | 330 °C |
Appearance | White powder/crystals |
*Sublimation is a technique used to obtain ultra pure-grade chemicals. For more details about sublimation, please refer to the Sublimed Materials for OLED devices page.
Chemical Structure
Device Structure(s)
Device structure | ITO/75 wt% TPD:25 wt% PC (50nm) /TCTA (10nm)/6 % PtL30Cl*:94 % [TCTA: TCP] [1:1] (30 nm)/TAZ (30 nm)/LiF/Al [1] |
Colour | White |
EQE@500 cd/m2 | 11.3% |
Current Efficiency@500 cd/m2 | 23.5 cd/A |
Bias | 9.3 V |
Device structure | ITO/TAPC 50 nm/tCP:BPCC (20 wt%) 10 nm/TemPPB* 50 nm/LiF 1 nm/Al 100 nm [2] |
Colour | Blue |
Max. EQE | 4.9% |
Max. Power Efficiency | 1.5 lm W-1 |
Max. Current Efficiency | 2.2 cd/A |
Max. Luminance | 2,790 cd/m2 |
*For chemical structure information please refer to the cited references.
HPLC Characterisation
Pricing
Grade | Order Code | Quantity | Price |
Sublimed (>99.0% purity) | M751 | 1 g | £156.00 |
Unsublimed (>98.0% purity) | M752 | 1 g | £99.00 |
Unsublimed (>98.0% purity) | M752 | 5 g | £388.00 |
Sublimed (>99.0% purity) | M751 | 5 g | £588.00 |
MSDS Documentation
TCP MSDS sheet
Literature and Reviews
- Blue-shifting the monomer and excimer phosphorescence of tridentate cyclometallated platinum(II) complexes for optimal white-light OLEDs, L. Murphy et al., Chem. Commun., 48, 5817-5819 (2012), DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31330H.
- A pure blue emitter (CIEy ≈ 0.08) of chrysene derivative with high thermal stability for OLED, Y. Chung et al., J. Mater. Chem. C, 3, 1794-1798 (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02669A.
- A study on the characteristics of OLEDs using Ir complex for blue phosphorescence, S-Y. Kim et al., Curr. Appl. Phys., 7 (4), 380-383 (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cap.2006.09.031.
- K. S. Son et al., Analyzing Bipolar Carrier Transport Characteristics of Diarylamino-Substituted Heterocyclic Compounds in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes by Probing Electroluminescence Spectra, Chem. Mater., 20, 4439–4446 (2008); DIO: 10.1021/cm8004985.
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