Endowing TADF Luminophors with AIE Properties Though Adjusting Flexible Dendrons for Highly Efficient Solution-Processed Nondoped OLEDs.

23 April 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

The amalgamation of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) properties, term AIE-TADF, is a promising strategy to design novel robust luminescent materials. Herein, we transform 2,3,4,5,6-penta(9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzonitrile (5CzBN) from an ACQ molecule to AIEgens by simply decorating a 5CzBN core with alkyl chain-linked spirobifluorene dendrons. By increasing the number of flexible dendrons, these materials can not only show obvious AIE-TADF characteristics and uniform film morphology, but also exhibit better resistance to isopropyl alcohol, which are beneficial to the fully solution-processed OLEDs. Notably, 5CzBN-PSP show great device efficiency with external quantum efficiency (EQE), current efficiency and power efficiency of 20.1%, 58.7 cd A-1 and 46.2 lm W-1, respectively, which achieved record-breaking efficiency in solution-processed nondoped OLEDs based on AIE emitters. It demonstrates a general approach to explore new efficient emitters by the marriage of AIE and TADF what could potentially improve their performance in various areas.

Keywords

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)
Aggregation induced emission
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
solution process method
core-dendron system

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