Acceptor modulation for blue and yellow TADF materials and fabrication of all-TADF white OLED

作者：Dong, Ruizhi; Liu, Di^*; Li, Jiuyan^*; Ma, Mengyao; Mei, Yongqiang; Li, Deli; Jiang, Jingyang

来源：Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021, 6(1): 40-51.

DOI：10.1039/d1qm01303c

• ACTIVATED DELAYED FLUORESCENCE
• LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES
• BIPOLAR HOST MATERIALS
• HIGH TRIPLET ENERGY
• HYBRID WOLEDS
• EFFICIENCY
• EMITTERS
• DESIGN

4,4 '-(4-Phenylpyridine-2,6-diyl)dibenzonitrile (PyDCN) was designed to reduce the electron-withdrawing strength and to decentralize the unsaturated N atoms relative to triazine. PyDCN was used as an acceptor to construct thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters PyDCN-PXZ and PyDCN-DMAC with phenoxazine (PXZ) and 9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine (DMAC) as electron donors. The relatively high radiative transition rate constants (k(F)) in the order of 10(7) s(-1), high photoluminescence quantum yields in the range of 80-90%, and balanced charge transportation were detected for both TADF emitters. PyDCN-DMAC exhibited electroluminescence (EL) with a peak at 472 nm and CIE coordinates of (0.17, 0.26), more approaching to real blue in comparison with most of DMAC based sky-blue TADF analogues. A high external quantum yield (eta(ext)) of 25.6% was obtained for a PyDCN-DMAC doped organic light-emitting diode (OLED). PyDCN-PXZ exhibited green EL with a eta(ext) of 26.9% at 519 nm in the doped OLED. Its non-doped yellow OLED also revealed a moderate eta(ext) of 18.2% with a peak at 557 nm. Furthermore, PyDCN-DMAC was used as the blue host emitter to fabricate a single-emitting-layer all-TADF white OLED in combination with a yellow home-made TADF emitter PP-PXZ, which exhibited a maximum eta(ext) of 18.5% with CIE coordinates of (0.38, 0.44) and excellent color stability.