Alq3

Alq3, effective electron-transport material for OLEDs

High thermal stability and quantum yield of fluorescence

Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum(III), commonly known as Alq₃, is widely used in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) as an electron-transport material (ETM) and emitting layer material (ELM) due to its high thermal stability, high quantum yield of fluorescence and high electron-transport ability.

Alq3 from Ossila was used in the high-impact paper (IF 30.85), Engineering Band-Type Alignment in CsPbBr3 Perovskite-Based Artificial Multiple Quantum Wells, K. Lee et al., Adv. Mater., 33 (17), 2005166 (2021); DOI: 10.1002/adma.202005166.

Alq₃ as the electron-transport and emitting layer material was the first efficient low molecular weight OLED reported by Tang in 1987 [1]. Since then, metaloquinolates have become the focus of new electroluminescent materials research, with Alq₃ being the most studied.

General Information

Product Details

*Sublimation is a technique used to obtain ultra pure-grade chemicals. For more details about sublimation, please refer to the Sublimed Materials page.

Chemical Structure

Device Structure(s)

Device structure	ITO/ NPB(60 nm)/Alq3:DCM(7nm)/BCP(12 nm)/ Alq3(36nm)/ MgAg(200 nm) [2]
Colour	Red
Max. Luminance	1, 000 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	5.66 cd/A

Device structure	ITO/m-MTDATA:MoOx (3:1, 15 nm)/m-MTDATA (30 nm)/NPB (5 nm)/Alq3 (50 nm)/BPhen (10 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm) [3]
Colour	Green
Max. Luminance	42,090 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	4.77 cd/A
Max. Power Efficiency	3.5 lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/α-NPD* (50 nm)/7%-Ir(ppy)3:CBP (20 nm)/BCP (10 nm)/Alq3 (40 nm)/Mg–Ag (100 nm)/Ag (20 nm) [4]
Colour	Green
Max EQE	(12.0±0.6)%
Max. Powder Efficiency	(45±2) lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/NPB (30 nm)/NPB: DCJTB: C545T* (10 nm)/NPB (4 nm)/DNA (8 nm)/(BCP) (9 nm)/Alq3 (30 nm)/LiF (1 nm)/Al (100 nm) [5]
Colour	White
Max. Luminance	13,600 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	12.3 cd/A
Max. Power Efficiency	4.4 lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/2-TNATA:33% WO3 (100 nm)/NPB (10 nm)/Alq3 (30 nm)/Bphen (20 nm)/BPhen: 2% Cs (10 nm)/Al (150 nm) [6]
Colour	Green
Operating Voltage for 100 cd/m2	3.1 V
Current Efficiency for 20 mA/cm2	4.4 cd/A
Power Efficiency for 20 mA/cm2	3.3 lm W−1

Device structure	ITO/CuPc(6.0 nm)/[NPB*(3.8 nm)/CuPc (1.5 nm)]4/NPB (15.0 nm)/Alq3 (60.0 nm)/Mg:Ag/Ag [7]
Colour	Green
Max. Luminance	15,000 cd/m2
Max. Current Efficiency	10.8 cd/A

*For chemical structure information please refer to the cited references.

Characterisation

Pricing

MSDS Documentation

Alq3 MSDS sheet

Literature and Reviews

1. Organic electroluminescent diodes, C. Tang et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 51, 913 (1987)
2. High-efficiency red electroluminescence from a narrow recombination zone confinedby an organic double heterostructure, Z. Xie et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 79, 1048 (2001); doi: 10.1063/1.1390479 .
3. Very low turn-on voltage and high brightness tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminumbasedorganic light-emitting diodes with a MoOx p-doping layer, G. Xie et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 093305 (2008); doi: 10.1063/1.2890490.
4. Efficient electrophosphorescence using a doped ambipolar conductive molecular organic thin film, C. Adachi et aL., Org. Electronics, 2(1), 37-43 (2001), doi:10.1016/S1566-1199(01)00010-6.
5. High efficiency white organic light-emitting devices by effectively controlling exciton recombination region, F. Guo et al., Semicond. Sci. Technol. 20, 310–313 (2005).
6. Highly Power Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with a p-Doping Layer, C-C. Chang et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 253504 (2006); doi: 10.1063/1.2405856.
7. Organic light-emitting diodes with improved hole-electron balance by using copper phthalocyanine/aromatic diamine multiple quantum wells, Y. Qiu et al., Phys. Lett., 80, 2628 (2002); Appl. doi: 10.1063/1.1468894.
8. Molecular Orbital Study of the First Excited State of the OLED Material Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum(III), M. D. Halls et al., Chem. Mater., 13 (8), 2632–2640 (2001), DOI: 10.1021/cm010121d.
9. Organic electroluminescent devices with improved stability, S. A. Van Slyke et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 2160 (1996); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.117151
10. Metal−Alq₃ Complexes:  The Nature of the Chemical Bonding, A. Curioni et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121 (36), pp 8216–8220 (1999).
11. Enhancement of power conversion efficiency of P3HT:PCBM solar cell using solution processed Alq3 film as electron transport layer, B. Y. Kadem et al., J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 26:3976–3983 (2015), DOI 10.1007/s10854-015-2933-3.
12. The impurity effects on OLEDs via transient electroluminescence analysis, C.-F. Lin et al., IEEE 17-20 (2015), 10.1109/AM-FPD.2015.7173184.

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