High‐Performance Non‐doped OLEDs with Nearly 100 % Exciton Use and Negligible Efficiency Roll‐Off

Huijun Liu(South China University of Technology), Jiajie Zeng(South China University of Technology), Jingjing Guo(South China University of Technology), Han Nie(South China University of Technology), Zujin Zhao(South China University of Technology), Ben Zhong Tang(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
June 1, 2018
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Abstract

Abstract Non‐doped organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) possess merits of higher stability and easier fabrication than doped devices. However, luminescent materials with high exciton use are generally unsuitable for non‐doped OLEDs because of severe emission quenching and exciton annihilation in neat films. Herein, we wish to report a novel molecular design of integrating aggregation‐induced delayed fluorescence (AIDF) moiety within host materials to explore efficient luminogens for non‐doped OLEDs. By grafting 4‐(phenoxazin‐10‐yl)benzoyl to common host materials, we develop a series of new luminescent materials with prominent AIDF property. Their neat films fluoresce strongly and can fully harvest both singlet and triplet excitons with suppressed exciton annihilation. Non‐doped OLEDs of these AIDF luminogens exhibit excellent luminance (ca. 100000 cd m −2 ), outstanding external quantum efficiencies (21.4–22.6 %), negligible efficiency roll‐off and improved operational stability. To the best of our knowledge, these are the most efficient non‐doped OLEDs reported so far. This convenient and versatile molecular design is of high significance for the advance of non‐doped OLEDs.


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