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Efficient and Stable Deep‐Blue Fluorescent Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Employing a Sensitizer with Fast Triplet Upconversion
Author(s) -
Zhang Dongdong,
Song Xiaozeng,
Gillett Alexander J.,
Drummond Bluebell H.,
Jones Saul T. E.,
Li Guomeng,
He Hanqing,
Cai Minghan,
Credgington Dan,
Duan Lian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201908355
Subject(s) - intersystem crossing , materials science , acceptor , excited state , photochemistry , fluorescence , optoelectronics , delocalized electron , carbazole , quantum efficiency , photon upconversion , diode , oled , luminescence , singlet state , optics , atomic physics , nanotechnology , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , layer (electronics) , condensed matter physics
Abstract Multiple donor–acceptor‐type carbazole–benzonitrile derivatives that exhibit thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) are the state of the art in efficiency and stability in sky‐blue organic light‐emitting diodes. However, such a motif still suffers from low reverse intersystem crossing rates ( k RISC ) with emission peaks <470 nm. Here, a weak acceptor of cyanophenyl is adopted to replace the stronger cyano one to construct blue emitters with multiple donors and acceptors. Both linear donor–π–donor and acceptor–π–acceptor structures are observed to facilitate delocalized excited states for enhanced mixing between charge‐transfer and locally excited states. Consequently, a high k RISC of 2.36 × 10 6 s −1 with an emission peak of 456 nm and a maximum external quantum efficiency of 22.8% is achieved. When utilizing this material to sensitize a blue multiple‐resonance TADF emitter, the corresponding device simultaneously realizes a maximum external quantum efficiency of 32.5%, CIE y ≈ 0.12, a full width at half maximum of 29 nm, and a T80 (time to 80% of the initial luminance) of > 60 h at an initial luminance of 1000 cd m −2 .