Abstract

Multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) presents great potential for applications in high-quality organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) displays due to their superb properties of high color purity and high quantum efficiencies. Nonetheless, most reported MR-TADF emitters show unsatisfactory devices performances with severe efficiency roll-off resulted from their inherent issues of slow reverse intersystem crossing rate (kRISC) and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ). Herein, we propose a novel strategy by employing quinazoline derivatives as secondary acceptor (PQ) and secondary donor–acceptor (PQCz) to provide intermediate locally excited triplet (3LE) states and then enhance spin-orbital coupling (SOC). In addition, the secondary donor–acceptor group PQCz in tCzBN-PQCz can suppress intermolecular interaction and provide dual long-range charge transfer (LRCT) channels to further enhance kRISC. Therefore, tCzBN-PQ and tCzBN-PQCz exhibit high kRISC of 5.6 × 105 s−1 and 7.3 × 105 s−1 with large photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 89 % and 95 % respectively. Consequently, OLED based on tCzBN-PQ and tCzBN-PQCz show excellent external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 30.2 % and 35.1 % with small efficiency roll-off and small full width at half maxima (FWHM) of 37 nm and 34 nm respectively. Especially, tCzBN-PQCz exhibits better performances and less-sensitive to the doping concentration which proves the effectiveness of this secondary donor–acceptor group.

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