A novel device concept was realized for simple single-layer small-molecule white organic light emitting devices. The single organic active layer here is simply comprised of a newly synthesized sky-blue fluorescent bipolar host (TPASO) and a common orange phosphorescent dopant. Suppressed singlet Föster energy transfer induced by a low-concentration doping and spontaneous high- to low-lying triplet energy transfer, respectively, lead to sky-blue fluorescence from TPASO and orange phosphorescence from the dopant. The resulting two-organic-component device exhibits a low turn-on voltage of 2.4 V, maximum current/power efficiencies up to 11.27 ± 0.02 cd A−1 and 14.15 ± 0.03 lm W−1, and a warm-white CIE coordinate of (0.42, 0.45) at 1000 cd m−2. Organic Electronics, 2014 (a) J–V plots measured in the hole- and electron-only devices with the solid lines indicating the SCLC fitting curves, and (b) Electric field-dependent hole and electron mobility of TPASO. |