journal article·2025-02Open access

A Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Dendrimer with Intramolecular Energy Transfer: Application for Efficient Host‐Free Green Solution‐Processed Organic Light‐emitting Diodes

Sen Wu, Dongyang Chen, Xiao‐Hong Zhang, Dianming Sun, Eli Zysman‐Colman

Advanced Materials· Volume 37· Issue 8

Abstract

Abstract The development of narrowband emissive, bright, and stable solution‐processed organic light‐emitting diodes (SP‐OLEDs) remains a challenge. Here, a strategy is presented that merges within a single emitter a TADF sensitizer responsible for exciton harvesting and an MR‐TADF motif that provides bright and narrowband emission. This emitter design also shows strong resistance to aggregate formation and aggregation‐cause quenching. It is based on a known MR‐TADF emitter DtBuCzB with a donor‐acceptor TADF moiety consisting of either tert ‐butylcarbazole donors ( tBuCzCO 2 HDCzB ) or second‐generation carbazole‐based donor dendrons ( 2GtBuCzCO 2 HDCzB ) and a benzoate acceptor. The TADF moiety acts as an exciton harvesting antenna and transfers these excitons via Förster resonance energy transfer to the MR‐TADF emissive core. The SP‐OLEDs with 2GtBuCzCO 2 HDCzB and tBuCzCO 2 HDCzB thus show very high maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQE max of 27.9 and 22.0%) and minimal efficiency roll‐off out to 5000 cd m −2 .
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

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Affiliations

Organic Semiconductor Centre EaStCHEM School of Chemistry University of St Andrews St Andrews Fife KY16 9ST UK

Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices Soochow University Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 P. R. China

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies Soochow University Suzhou Jiangsu 215123 P. R. China

Funding

China Scholarship Council · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation · Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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