Tricomponent Exciplex Emitter Realizing over 20% External Quantum Efficiency in Organic Light-Emitting Diode with Multiple Reverse Intersystem Crossing Channels

Advanced Science
Ming ZhangXiao-Hong Zhang

Abstract

With the naturally separated frontier molecular orbitals, exciplexes are capable of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). And, the current key issue for exciplex emitters is improving their exciton utilization. In this work, a strategy of building exciplex emitters with three components is proposed to realize multiple reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) channels, improving their exciton utilization by enhancing upconversion of nonradiative triplet excitons. Accordingly, a tricomponent exciplex DBT-SADF:PO-T2T:CDBP is constructed with three RISC channels respectively on DBT-SADF, DBT-SADF:PO-T2T, and CDBP:PO-T2T. Furthermore, its photoluminescence quantum yield and rate constant of the RISC process are successfully improved. In the OLED, DBT-SADF:PO-T2T:CDBP exhibits a remarkably high maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 20.5%, which is the first report with an EQE over 20% for the OLEDs based on exciplex emitters to the best of our knowledge. This work not only demonstrates that introducing multiple RISC channels can effectively improve the exciton utilization of exciplex emitters, but also proves the superiority of the tricomponent exciplex strategy for further dev...Continue Reading

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