journal article·2021-12

Side by Side Alignment of Donors Enabling High‐Efficiency TADF OLEDs with Insensitivity to Doping Concentration

Zhiwen Liu, Ganggang Li, He Liu, Changjiang Zhou, Kai Li, Zhiming Wang, Chuluo Yang

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 9· Issue 24
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Abstract

Abstract Doping sensitivity is a great obstacle in boosting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)‐based organic light‐emitting diodes into practical application. Herein, a “side by side” donor alignment strategy is proposed to achieve decent electroluminescence performance under high doping concentration by studying the structure–property relationship of two emitters D2T‐TRZ and D2Y‐TRZ. D2T‐TRZ containing parallel aligned donors shows high photoluminescent quantum yield (PLQY) and short delayed lifetime (τd) in both doped and neat films, which endow its excellent performances with maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEmaxs) higher than 22% under wide doping range of 10–70 wt%. While, composed of antiparallel acridans, D2Y‐TRZ presents good PLQY and relatively long τd when diluted in host matrix, but undergoes severe quenching in neat films. Consequently, D2Y‐TRZ achieves lower EQEmaxs of 14.9–16.4% within narrow range of 10–40 wt%. This result reveals parallel aligned donors as a better choice to design TADF emitters inert to doping concentration.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

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Affiliations

College of Materials Science and Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen 518060 P. R. China

State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Center for Aggregation‐Induced Emission Guangzhou International Campus South China University of Technology (SCUT) Guangzhou 510640 P. R. China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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