Progress in Anthracene-based Electroluminescent Materials

Organic Light-emitting Diode(OLED), possessing many kind of advantages, and market competitive potentials over LCD and PDP et al, is called the third generation display technology. In the OLED research filed, the light-emitting materials are always being focused on. Since anthracene derivatives have rigid structure, wide energy gaps and high fluorescent quantum efficiency, a great deal of anthracene-based electroluminescent mate-rials have been developed till now. The progress of anthracene-based electroluminescent materials is reviewed according to the molecular structures and light-emitting properties. The research ideas on new anthracene-based electroluminescent materials are also suggested.