Issue 24, 2023

Color tuning of multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on fully fused polycyclic amine/carbonyl frameworks

Abstract

Two novel π-extended amine/carbonyl-based multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitters have been designed and synthesized. The two emitters are isomeric, composed of nine fused rings and show green-yellow emission. Sym-DiDiKTa and Asym-DiDiKTa possess tert-butyl groups distributed in a symmetrical and asymmetrical fashion, respectively, which significantly impact the single-crystal packing structure. The two compounds possess similar singlet–triplet energy gaps, ΔEST, of around 0.23 eV, narrowband emission characterized by a full-width at half-maximum, FWHM, of 29 nm and a photoluminescence quantum yield, ΦPL, of 70% and 53% for the symmetric and asymmetric counterparts, respectively, in toluene. Investigation in OLEDs demonstrated that the devices with Sym-DiDiKTa and Asym-DiDiKTa displayed electroluminescence maxima of 543 and 544 nm, and maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEmax) of 9.8% and 10.5%, respectively. The maximum EQE was further improved to 19.9% by employing a hyperfluorescence strategy. We further present the first example of a neutral MR-TADF emitter incorporated in a LEC device where Sym-DiDiKTa acts as the emitter. The LEC shows a λEL at 551 nm and FWHM of 60 nm with luminance of 300 cd m−2 and a fast turn-on time of less than 2 s to 100 cd m−2.

Graphical abstract: Color tuning of multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on fully fused polycyclic amine/carbonyl frameworks

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Febr. 2023
Accepted
01 Maijs 2023
First published
02 Maijs 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 8263-8273

Color tuning of multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on fully fused polycyclic amine/carbonyl frameworks

J. M. dos Santos, C. Chan, S. Tang, D. Hall, T. Matulaitis, D. B. Cordes, A. M. Z. Slawin, Y. Tsuchiya, L. Edman, C. Adachi, Y. Olivier and E. Zysman-Colman, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 8263 DOI: 10.1039/D3TC00641G

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