Issue 46, 2019

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence enantiomers for solution-processed circularly polarized electroluminescence

Abstract

Circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) characteristics are receiving increasing interest, as they have shown improving efficiencies of circularly polarized electroluminescence (CPEL). Here, we developed a series of TADF enantiomers based on chiral binaphthalene, an acceptor (A) of cyanopyridine, and donors (D) of carbazoles in a chiral–A–D architecture. Good solubility, high luminescence yields, and excellent chiral stability with a photoluminescence dissymmetry factor (gPL) up to 5.8 × 10−4 were achieved. Efficient CP-OLEDs using these chiral TADF molecules as dopants were successfully fabricated, exhibiting high external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) up to 12.4% and opposite CPEL signals with gEL of 6 × 10−4/−8.6 × 10−4 in vacuum-deposited devices. More impressively, the solution-processed TADF CP-OLEDs result in much larger gEL values (3.5 × 10−3/−3.9 × 10−3) with EQEs up to 10.6%. This discovery is encouraging and instructive, which could stimulate the development of high-performance CP-OLEDs using chiral TADF molecules through solution-processing approaches.

Graphical abstract: Thermally activated delayed fluorescence enantiomers for solution-processed circularly polarized electroluminescence

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Sept. 2019
Accepted
02 Okt. 2019
First published
03 Okt. 2019

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019,7, 14511-14516

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence enantiomers for solution-processed circularly polarized electroluminescence

S. Sun, J. Wang, L. Chen, R. Chen, J. Jin, C. Chen, S. Chen, G. Xie, C. Zheng and W. Huang, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 14511 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC04941J

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