Manipulation of Charge and Exciton Distribution Based on Blue Aggregation‐Induced Emission Fluorophors: A Novel Concept to Achieve High‐Performance Hybrid White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

Abstract

The aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) phenomenon is important in organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs), for it can potentially solve the aggregation‐caused quenching problem. However, the performance of AIE fluorophor‐based OLEDs (AIE OLEDs) is unsatisfactory, particularly for deep‐blue devices (CIEy < 0.15). Here, by enhancing the device engineering, a deep‐blue AIE OLED exhibits low voltage (i.e., 2.75 V at 1 cd m −2 ), high luminance (17 721 cd m −2 ), high efficiency (4.3 lm W −1 ), and low efficiency roll‐off (3.6 lm W −1 at 1000 cd m −2 ), which is the best deep‐blue AIE OLED. Then, blue AIE fluorophors, for the first time, have been demonstrated to achieve high‐performance hybrid white OLEDs (WOLEDs). The two‐color WOLEDs exhibit i) stable colors and the highest efficiency among pure‐white hybrid WOLEDs (32.0 lm W −1 ); ii) stable colors, high efficiency, and very low efficiency roll‐off; or iii) unprecedented efficiencies at high luminances (i.e., 70.2 cd A −1 , 43.4 lm W −1 at 10 000 cd m −2 ). Moreover, a three‐color WOLED exhibits wide correlated color temperatures (10 690–2328 K), which is the first hybrid WOLED showing sunlight‐style emission. These findings will open a novel concept that blue AIE fluorophors are promising candidates to develop high‐performance hybrid WOLEDs, which have a bright prospect for the future displays and lightings.