Highly twisted α-diketone-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes
- 1 March 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 100 (3), 224-233
- https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2021-0208
Abstract
We have designed a highly twisted small TADF emitter PXZ-α-DK based on an -diketone (α-DK) as a strong acceptor and phenoxazine (PXZ) as a strong donor to obtain red-shifted emission in comparison to the equivalent -diketone linked to 9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine (DMAC). The PXZ-α-DK shows emission at 586 nm and DMAC-α-DK shows emission at 548 nm in 1,3-bis(N-carbazolyl)benzene (mCP) host at 1.5 wt% doping of the emitter, with short-delayed lifetimes of 6.9 μs for PXZ-α-DK and 7.6 μs for DMAC-α-DK. OLEDs fabricated using these emitters show green electroluminescence at 555 nm for DMAC-α-DK, with a maximum external quantum efficiency, EQEmax, of 6.3%, and orange electroluminescence at 585 nm for PXZ-α-DK, with an EQEmax of 0.8%. We corroborate the optoelectronic properties of these emitters with DFT calculations.Keywords
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