Exciplex Host Research Articles

High Performance All Fluorescence White Organic Light Emitting Devices with a Highly Simplified Structure Based on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Dopants and Host.

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters of different colors commonly need different hosts, which cause the complexed device structure and low efficiency of all fluorescence white organic light-emitting devices (F-WOLEDs). To solve this, novel concept of employing TADF exciplex as universal host of TADF emitters with different colors was proposed. All blue, green, and orange devices based on the TADF exciplex host show much lower turn-on voltages, and comparable and even higher efficiencies than corresponding devices based on conventional hosts. The two color F-WOLED with extremely simplified device structure was finally fabricated, achieving a white emission with the maximum current efficiency (CE), power efficiency (PE), and external quantum efficiency (EQE) respectively of 50.1 cd A-1, 63.0 lm W-1, and 19.0% in the forward-viewing direction without any light out-coupling technology, which is the best performance among reported F-WOLEDs, demonstrating the superiority of the novel concept.

The Electroluminescence Mechanism of Solution-Processed TADF Emitter 4CzIPN Doped OLEDs Investigated by Transient Measurements.

High efficiency, solution-processed, organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), using a thermally-activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitter, 1,2,3,5-tetrakis(carbazol-9-yl)-4,6-dicyanobenzene (4CzIPN), are fabricated, and the transient electroluminescence (EL) decay of the device with a structure of [ITO/PEDOT: PSS/4CzIPN 5 wt % doped 4,40-N,N0-dicarbazolylbiphenyl(CBP)/bis-4,6-(3,5-di-4-pyridylphenyl)-2-methylpyrimidine (B4PyMPM)/lithium fluoride (LiF)/Al], is systematically studied. The results shed light on the dominant operating mechanism in TADF-based OLEDs. Electroluminescence in the host–guest system is mainly produced from the 4CzIPN emitter, rather than the exciplex host materials.

Magnetic Field Effect in Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on Electron Donor–Acceptor Exciplex Chromophores Doped with Fluorescent Emitters

A new type of organic light‐emitting diode (OLED) has emerged that shows enhanced operational stability and large internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%, which is based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) compounds doped with fluorescent emitters. Magneto‐electroluminescence (MEL) in such TADF‐based OLEDs and magneto‐photoluminescence (MPL) in thin films based on donor–acceptor (D–A) exciplexes doped with fluorescent emitters with various concentrations are investigated. It has been found that both MEL and MPL responses are thermally activated with substantially lower activation energy compared to that in the pristine undoped D–A exciplex host blend. In addition, both MPL and MEL steeply decrease with the emitter's concentration. This indicates the existence of a loss mechanism, whereby the triplet charge‐transfer state in the exciplex host blend may directly decay to the lowest, nonemissive triplet state of the fluorescent emitter molecules.

Simple-Structured Phosphorescent Warm White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with High Power Efficiency and Low Efficiency Roll-off.

We present phosphorescent WOLEDs fabricated simply by inserting an ultrathin nondoped orange layer within the blue emissive zone, where an efficient exciplex system is applied as the host. The resulting WOLED shows maximum power efficiency of 75.3 and 63.1 lm/W at the luminance of 1000 cd/m(2). The exciton density profile in the emitting layer, the operational mechanism and the quenching process at high luminance are systematically investigated by experimental and theoretical methods, from which it is concluded that the efficient utilization of excitons via exciplex host and the wide recombination zone are the key factors for the prominent achievement of high efficiency and greatly reduced efficiency roll-off.

Efficient red, green, blue and white organic light-emitting diodes with same exciplex host

Recently, exciplex had drawn attention because of its potential for efficient electroluminescence or for use as a host in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this study, four kinds of hole transport material/electron transport material combinations were examined to verify the formation of exciplex and the corresponding energy bandgaps. We successfully demonstrated that the combination of tris(4-carbazoyl-9-ylphenyl)amine (TCTA) and 3,5,3′,5′-tetra(m-pyrid-3-yl)phenyl[1,1′]biphenyl (BP4mPy) could form a stable exciplex emission with an adequate energy gap. Using exciplex as a host in red, green, and blue phosphorescent OLEDs with an identical trilayer architecture enabled effective energy transfer from exciplex to emitters, achieving corresponding efficiencies of 8.8, 14.1, and 15.8%. A maximum efficiency of 11.3% and stable emission was obtained in white OLEDs.

Power-efficient solution-processed red organic light-emitting diodes based on an exciplex host and a novel phosphorescent iridium complex

A novel red heteroleptic iridium complex, Ir(DPA-Flpy-CF3)2acac, was synthesized and whose corresponding solution-processed PhOLED shows a record power efficiency of 44.5 lm W−1 with CIE coordinates of (0.64, 0.36).

High Power Efficiency Solution-Processed Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using Exciplex-Type Host with a Turn-on Voltage Approaching the Theoretical Limit.

Three solution-processable exciplex-type host materials were successfully designed and characterized by equal molar blending hole transporting molecules with a newly synthesized electron transporting material, which possesses high thermal stability and good film-forming ability through a spin-coating technique. The excited-state dynamics and the structure-property relationships were systematically investigated. By gradually deepening the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level of electron-donating components, the triplet energy of exciplex hosts were increased from 2.64 to 3.10 eV. Low temperature phosphorescence spectra demonstrated that the excessively high triplet energy of exciplex would induce a serious energy leakage from the complex state to the constituting molecule. Furthermore, the low energy electromer state, which only exists under the electroexcitation, was found as another possible channel for energy loss in exciplex-based phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In particular, as quenching of the exciplex-state and the triplet exciton were largely eliminated, solution-processed blue phosphorescence OLEDs using the exciplex-type host achieved an extremely low turn-on voltage of 2.7 eV and record-high power efficiency of 22.5 lm W(-1), which were among the highest values in the devices with identical structure.

Highly efficient red OLEDs using DCJTB as the dopant and delayed fluorescent exciplex as the host.

In this manuscript, we demonstrated a highly efficient DCJTB emission with delayed fluorescent exciplex TCTA:3P-T2T as the host. For the 1.0% DCJTB doped concentration, a maximum luminance, current efficiency, power efficiency and EQE of 22,767 cd m−2, 22.7 cd A−1, 21.5 lm W−1 and 10.15% were achieved, respectively. The device performance is the best compared to either red OLEDs with traditional fluorescent emitter or traditional red phosphor of Ir(piq)3 doped into CBP host. The extraction of so high efficiency can be explained as the efficient triplet excitons up-conversion of TCTA:3P-T2T and the energy transfer from exciplex host singlet state to DCJTB singlet state.

Nearly 100% triplet harvesting in conventional fluorescent dopant-based organic light-emitting devices through energy transfer from exciplex.

Nearly 100% triplet harvesting in conventional fluorophor-based organic light-emitting devices is realized through energy transfer from exciplex. The best C545T-doped device using the exciplex host exhibits a maximum current efficiency of 44.0 cd A(-1) , a maximum power efficiency of 46.1 lm W(-1) , and a maximum external quantum efficiency of 14.5%.

Schizophrenia following prenatal rubella exposure: Gestational timing and diagnostic specificity

Different donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) and donor-π-bridge-acceptor-π-bridge-donor (D-π-A-π-D) systems based on a quinoxaline acceptor are compared. A significant difference in electrochemical and photophysical properties was found depending on molecular structure. A luminescence shift from 539 nm up to 671 nm was observed upon extension of conjugation length. The studied compounds were tested in fluorescent organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) demonstrating an external quantum efficiency up to 4.5% for a deep red non-doped device and 7% when doped into an exciplex host device. A quantum-chemical interpretation of the electroluminescence spectra for the fabricated OLEDs was carried out including modelling of excimers and exciplexes.