journal article·2025-08Open access

TADF Host Engineering for Improved Pure Blue Matrix‐Free Hyperfluorescent OLEDs with Ultranarrow Emission

Hwan‐Hee Cho, Daniel G. Congrave, Sebastian Gorgon, Victor Riesgo‐Gonzalez, Richard H. Friend, Hugo Bronstein

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 13· Issue 23

Abstract

Abstract Hyperfluorescence has been proposed as a promising approach for simultaneously efficient and stable blue electroluminescence. Two‐component matrix‐free hyperfluorescence (MFHF) is particularly appealing to simplify device fabrication but is limited by the availability of suitable blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) hosts. In this work, blue TADF materials are developed with high non‐doped OLED performance and apply them as hosts in MFHF devices. High maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) of up to 23.2% are achieved from blue non‐doped TADF organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), facilitating efficient MFHF devices with ultranarrow pure blue emission (EQE > 20%, CIEy ≈ 0.15 and full‐width at half‐maximum ≤15 nm) upon incorporation of a narrowband terminal emitter with multi‐resonance spectral features. Steady‐state and transient photophysical studies support the high performance of non‐doped TADF and MFHF OLEDs. Our results indicate that optimizing TADF hosts for intrinsic non‐doped device efficiency is a viable direction to realize high‐performing pure blue MFHF OLEDs based on a simple host‐guest emissive system.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Green IT and Sustainability · Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

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Affiliations

Cavendish Laboratory Department of Physics University of Cambridge J J Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0HE UK

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Yonsei University 50 Yonsei‐ro Seodaemun‐gu Seoul 03722 Republic of Korea

Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1EW UK

Department of Chemistry University of Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory Oxford OX1 3TA UK

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council · European Research Council

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