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Elevating the upconversion performance of a multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter via an embedded azepine approach
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Elevating the upconversion performance of a multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter via an embedded azepine approach

Yi-Kuan Chen, Jian Lei and 典霖 吳
Chemical Science, Vol.15, pp.10146-10154
24/05/2024

Abstract

azepine;TADF;OLED
<p><meta charset="UTF-8" />Multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitters hold promise for efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and wide gamut displays. An azepine donor is introduced into the boron&ndash;nitrogen system for the first time. The highly twisted conformation of a seven-ring embedded new molecule,&nbsp;<strong>TAzBN</strong>, increases the intermolecular distances, suppressing self-aggregation emission quenching. Meanwhile, the azepine donor is crucial to achieve a narrow singlet-triplet gap (0.03 eV) as well as boost the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rate to 8.50 &times; 10<small><sup>5</sup></small>&nbsp;s<small><sup>&minus;1</sup></small>. It is noteworthy that&nbsp;<strong>TAzBN</strong>&nbsp;demonstrates an impressive photoluminescence quantum yield of 94%. In addition, its nonsensitized OLED displayed a remarkable external quantum efficiency (EQE<small><sub>max</sub></small>) with values peaking at 27.3%, and an EQE of 21.4% at 500 cd m<small><sup>&minus;2</sup></small>. This finding shows that when&nbsp;<strong>TAzBN</strong>&nbsp;is used at a high concentration of 10 wt%, its device maintains efficiency even at higher brightness levels, highlighting&nbsp;<strong>TAzBN</strong>&#39;s resistance to aggregation quenching. Furthermore,&nbsp;<strong>TAzBN</strong>&nbsp;enantiomers showed circularly polarized photoluminescence characteristics with dissymmetry factors |<em>g</em><small><sub>PL</sub></small>| of up to 1.07 &times; 10<small><sup>&minus;3</sup></small>&nbsp;in doped films. The curved heptagonal geometry opens an avenue to design the MR-TADF emitters with fast spin-flip and chiroptical properties.</p>
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