The roles of thermally activated delayed fluorescence sensitizers for efficient red fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes with D–A–A type emitters. (4th December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Ya-Kun; Huang, Chen-Chao; Kumar, Sarvendra; Wu, Sheng-Fan; Yuan, Yi; Aziz Khan, ; Jiang, Zuo-Quan; Fung, Man-Keung; Liao, Liang-Sheng
• Is Part Of: Materials chemistry frontiers. Volume 3:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 161
• Page End: 167
• Publication Date: 2018-12-04
• Subjects: Materials science -- Periodicals; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1039/c8qm00442k
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-1529

Abstract

Abstract : The roles of thermally activated delayed fluorescence sensitizers (4CzIPN and OSTFCN) are investigated by developing two red D–A–A type chromophores. Abstract : A thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) sensitizer plays a key role in harvesting 100% excitons and transferring energy in TADF-assisted fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (TAF-OLEDs). Despite its important roles, there have been few studies investigating how a TADF sensitizer affects the overall device performance and resonance energy transfer (RET) process in TAF-OLEDs. In this study, we investigate the effects of different parameters of sensitizers, i.e., spectra overlap and radiative constant ( k r ) on the device performances and RET process by developing two red emitters (OTPA-BT-CN andPOZ-BT-CN ) and choosing two TADF materials with similar photoluminescence spectra (4CzIPN and OSTFB). Mechanism studies reveal that k r of the sensitizer, rather than the overlap of sensitizer and fluorescent emitter, plays a more significant role in TAF-OLEDs. As a result, the device with higher k r of the sensitizer achieves a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 12.4% with an emission peak of 612 nm, which is higher by 2.0-fold compared with that of a 4CzIPN-based device (6.3%).