journal article·2026-01

Highly Efficient Blue Crystalline OLEDs Enabled by a Chrysene‐Core Hot Exciton Sensitizer

Hao Hu, Yu Huang, Yue Yu, Lei Ying, Feng Zhu, Dongge Ma, Yuguang Ma, Donghang Yan

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 14· Issue 2
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Abstract

Abstract Combining crystalline materials with emissive materials featuring high exciton utilization efficiency represents an important strategy for developing high‐photon‐output organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, a novel hot exciton material, PCC, is reported. A non‐doped, amorphous deep‐blue OLED based on PCC exhibits an electroluminescent (EL) emission peak at 436 nm and achieves a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 13.77%. This is one of the highest performance levels reported for emitters based on the “hot exciton” mechanism. PCC is further embedded as nanoaggregates (NA) into a crystalline host matrix (CHM), serving as a sensitizer for blue dopant (D), enabling efficient exciton utilization. This approach enabled the fabrication of a high‐performance blue crystalline OLED (C‐OLED) with an EQE approaching 10%. Benefiting from the high mobility of CHM, the device exhibited a rapid increase in luminance and current density. Compared with previously reported high‐performance amorphous OLEDs (A‐OLEDs, CIE y ≤ 0.20), the C‐OLED delivered enhanced photon output along with a significantly lower ratio of Joule heat loss due to series resistance. These findings provide new insights into device architecture design for high‐efficiency blue OLEDs.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials · Perovskite Materials and Applications

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 P. R. China

School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 P. R. China

Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 P. R. China

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China

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