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Nanosecond-time-scale delayed fluorescence molecule for deep-blue OLEDs with small efficiency rolloff

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  • Jong Uk Kim

    (Kyushu University
    Kyushu University)

  • In Seob Park

    (Kyushu University)

  • Chin-Yiu Chan

    (Kyushu University)

  • Masaki Tanaka

    (Kyushu University)

  • Youichi Tsuchiya

    (Kyushu University)

  • Hajime Nakanotani

    (Kyushu University
    Kyushu University
    Kyushu University)

  • Chihaya Adachi

    (Kyushu University
    Kyushu University
    Kyushu University)

Abstract

Aromatic organic deep-blue emitters that exhibit thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) can harvest all excitons in electrically generated singlets and triplets as light emission. However, blue TADF emitters generally have long exciton lifetimes, leading to severe efficiency decrease, i.e., rolloff, at high current density and luminance by exciton annihilations in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Here, we report a deep-blue TADF emitter employing simple molecular design, in which an activation energy as well as spin–orbit coupling between excited states with different spin multiplicities, were simultaneously controlled. An extremely fast exciton lifetime of 750 ns was realized in a donor–acceptor-type molecular structure without heavy metal elements. An OLED utilizing this TADF emitter displayed deep-blue electroluminescence (EL) with CIE chromaticity coordinates of (0.14, 0.18) and a high maximum EL quantum efficiency of 20.7%. Further, the high maximum efficiency were retained to be 20.2% and 17.4% even at high luminance.

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  • Jong Uk Kim & In Seob Park & Chin-Yiu Chan & Masaki Tanaka & Youichi Tsuchiya & Hajime Nakanotani & Chihaya Adachi, 2020. "Nanosecond-time-scale delayed fluorescence molecule for deep-blue OLEDs with small efficiency rolloff," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-15558-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15558-5
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