journal article·2026-03Open access

Helical Chiral MR‐TADF Emitters Enabling Blue Circularly Polarized OLEDs

Guohui Xing, Haiwei Xia, Jiahao Xu, Xinwen Zhang, Yun Ma, Qiang Zhao

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 14· Issue 10

Abstract

ABSTRACT Circularly polarized organic light‐emitting diodes (CP‐OLEDs) are attracting increasing attention for next‐generation display and imaging applications. A key challenge lies in the development of emitters that can simultaneously deliver high efficiency, narrowband emission, and strong circular polarization. Herein, we report three pairs of helical CP‐MR‐TADF compounds, M / P ‐ PhCz‐QAO , M / P ‐ BFN‐QAO , and M / P ‐ BSF‐QAO , in which N ‐phenylcarbazole, dibenzofuran, and dibenzothiophene units induce intrinsic helical chirality within a carbonyl/nitrogen‐based MR‐TADF framework. This steric design enforces strong coupling between the chiral geometry and the frontier molecular orbitals. The resulting enantiomers exhibit narrowband sky‐blue photoluminescence (PL) with full widths at half maximum of 32–42 nm and solution‐state Commission International de l'Eclairage (CIE) y coordinates of 0.08–0.14. When integrated into OLEDs, the devices achieve maximum external quantum efficiencies of up to 15.1% together with clear circularly polarized electroluminescence signals with g EL values on the order of 10 −3 . This work demonstrates a robust intrinsic chirality design strategy for achieving high‐performance CP‐MR‐TADF materials, paving the way toward efficient and spectrally pure CP‐OLEDs for advanced chiroptical optoelectronic applications.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds · Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Magnetism in coordination complexes

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) & Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology) Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) Nanjing China

College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology) Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center For Fabrication and Application of Special Optical Fiber Materials and Devices Institution Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) Nanjing China

School of Electronics and Information Technology Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing China

Funding

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

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