TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanosecond-time-scale delayed fluorescence molecule for deep-blue OLEDs with small efficiency rolloff
AU - Kim, Jong Uk
AU - Park, In Seob
AU - Chan, Chin Yiu
AU - Tanaka, Masaki
AU - Tsuchiya, Youichi
AU - Nakanotani, Hajime
AU - Adachi, Chihaya
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the Regional Innovation Eco-System Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, JST ERATO (Grant Number JPMJER1305), the International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER) sponsored by MEXT, and JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers 17H01232).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-020-15558-5
DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-15558-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 32286281
AN - SCOPUS:85083545058
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 11
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 1765
ER -