Patent 7807992 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Electronic devices comprising an anode, buffer layer, hole transport layer, photoactive layer, electron transport layer, electron injection layer, and cathode are provided, where the photoactive layer comprises a dual dopant in a metallic complex. The dopants are selected so that their emitting wavelengths are essentially the same, while their ionization potentials and electron affinities are substantially different. The dual dopant device allows for tuning the ionization potential of one dopant to enhance hole injection and/or minimize hole trapping, while independently tuning the electron affinity of the other dopant to enhance electron injection and/or minimize electron trapping.