An excellent organic blue light-emitting diode based on 4,4-bis(diphenylamino)-quinque(p-phenylene)s (OPP(5)-NPh) with a maximum luminance of up to 5000 cd/m2 and a luminanous efficiency of 1.3 cd/A was reported. This diode was made by using a wide band-gap hole-blocking layer, F-TBB instead of PBD in the OLED devices. We attribute the good performance to the one trade-off involved in the use of F-TBB to obtain higher luminance is the increased turn-on voltages and slightly decreased device efficiencies.(C) 2007 Zhong Hui Li. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.