Issue 12, 2020

Alkoxy chain regulated stimuli-responsive AIE luminogens based on tetraphenylethylene substituted phenanthroimidazoles and non-doped OLEDs with negligible efficiency roll-off

Abstract

Three novel tetraphenylethylene derivatives with different lengths of alkoxy chains, named TPEO1-PPI, TPEO4-PPI and TPEO6-PPI, are synthesized and fully characterized. All of them show obvious aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties with high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) in the film state. The synthesized emitters exhibit green or blue emission in the solid state, a significant blue-shift is observed in emission spectra upon increasing the length of alkoxy chains. Interestingly, all these compounds demonstrate mechanofluorochromic (MFC) properties with a significant red-shift after mechanical grinding. X-ray diffraction results indicate that the MFC properties can be attributed to the morphological transition from crystalline to amorphous. Due to the high PLQY in film states and matched energy levels, the device based on TPEO4-PPI shows an outstanding maximum luminance (up to 15 995 cd m−2 at 8.7 V), remarkable electroluminescence (EL) efficiencies (4.51 lm W−1 and 4.22 cd A−1) and a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE, 4.07%). In addition, these devices show small efficiency roll-off, the corresponding EQE remained at 3.59% at a high luminance of 1000 cd m−2. These results indicate that the length of the peripheral alkoxy chains connected to the terminal group can have a great influence on the photophysical properties, which deserves attention in molecular design.

Graphical abstract: Alkoxy chain regulated stimuli-responsive AIE luminogens based on tetraphenylethylene substituted phenanthroimidazoles and non-doped OLEDs with negligible efficiency roll-off

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Oct 2019
Accepted
02 Feb 2020
First published
03 Feb 2020

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,8, 4139-4147

Alkoxy chain regulated stimuli-responsive AIE luminogens based on tetraphenylethylene substituted phenanthroimidazoles and non-doped OLEDs with negligible efficiency roll-off

Z. Qiu, Z. Yang, W. Chen, L. Xing, S. Hu, S. Ji, Q. Yang, N. Cai, X. Ouyang and Y. Huo, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 4139 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC05864H

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