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Phosphine Oxide Linkage Manipulating Trinuclear Iridium(III) Complex for High‐Efficiency Bilayer Nondoped Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes
Author(s) -
Wei Ying,
Zhang Jing,
Kan Wenjing,
Xu Hui
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.202001105
Subject(s) - oled , materials science , iridium , phosphorescence , quantum yield , photoluminescence , photochemistry , quantum efficiency , quenching (fluorescence) , bilayer , phosphine oxide , optoelectronics , fluorescence , nanotechnology , chemistry , organic chemistry , optics , phosphine , biochemistry , layer (electronics) , membrane , catalysis , physics
Abstract Developing high‐efficiency nondoped phosphorescence (PH) organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) by solution processing is still a big challenge, due to high demand on quenching suppression ability of phosphors. Here, phosphine oxide (PO) linkage is incorporated between Ir 3+ complexed cores of a trinuclear phosphorescent emitter named [Ir(PBI) 2 ] 3 TPBIPO. The emission spectra of single‐molecular [Ir(PBI) 2 ] 3 TPBIPO is identical to its mononuclear congeners, but its frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) and triplet state location are separated by electron‐withdrawing effect of P=O. Furthermore, by virtue of tetrahedral configuration of sp 3 ‐hybrid PO linker, steric hindrance of [Ir(PBI) 2 ] 3 TPBIPO is enhanced by locking the spatial orientations of the cores and vanishing packing freedom, giving rise to the effectively suppressed triplet quenching. As a consequence, neat [Ir(PBI) 2 ] 3 TPBIPO film achieves a photoluminescence quantum yield of ≈90%, and a state‐of‐the‐art external quantum efficiency of 23.2% at 1000 nits from its spin‐coated bilayer non‐doped OLEDs.