Issue 19, 2022

Highly efficient and stable deep-blue OLEDs based on narrowband emitters featuring an orthogonal spiro-configured indolo[3,2,1-de]acridine structure

Abstract

High-efficiency and stable deep-blue bottom-emitting organic light-emitting diodes with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage y coordinates (CIEys) < 0.08 remain exclusive in the literature owing to the high excited-state energy of the emitters. Here, we propose the utilization of narrowband emitters to lower the excited-state energy for stable deep-blue devices by taking advantage of their high color purity. Two proof-of-concept deep-blue emitters with nitrogen-containing spiro-configured polycyclic frameworks are thereafter developed to introduce a multi-resonance effect for narrow emissions and sterically orthogonal configurations for alleviated molecular interactions. Both emitters show bright ultrapure deep-blue emissions with an extremely small full-width-at-half-maxima of only 18–19 nm, which can be maintained even in heavily doped films. Small CIEys of 0.054 and 0.066 are therefore measured from the corresponding electroluminescence devices with peak energies of only 2.77 eV (448 nm) and 2.74 eV (453 nm), accounting for the remarkably long LT80s (lifetime to 80% of the initial luminance) of 18 900 and 43 470 hours at 100 cd m−2, respectively. Furthermore, by adopting a thermally activated delayed fluorescence sensitizer, impressive maximum external quantum efficiencies of 25% and 31% are recorded respectively, representing state-of-the-art performances for deep-blue devices.

Graphical abstract: Highly efficient and stable deep-blue OLEDs based on narrowband emitters featuring an orthogonal spiro-configured indolo[3,2,1-de]acridine structure

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
17 Marts 2022
Accepted
06 Apr. 2022
First published
20 Apr. 2022
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 5622-5630

Highly efficient and stable deep-blue OLEDs based on narrowband emitters featuring an orthogonal spiro-configured indolo[3,2,1-de]acridine structure

G. Meng, D. Zhang, J. Wei, Y. Zhang, T. Huang, Z. Liu, C. Yin, X. Hong, X. Wang, X. Zeng, D. Yang, D. Ma, G. Li and L. Duan, Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 5622 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC01543A

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