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Towards efficient blue aggregation-induced emission and delayed fluorescence molecules by locking the skeleton of indolocarbazole derivatives for non-doped OLEDs

Materials Today Chemistry, ISSN: 2468-5194, Vol: 40, Page: 102239
2024
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Article Description

Although the design strategies for thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules have gradually become richer and more refined, challenges still exist in the design of such materials. Typically, the highly twisted donor (D)-acceptor (A)-type structure of TADF materials presents a challenging contradiction between the desire for a minimal singlet-triplet energy gap (Δ E ST ) and the pursuit of high oscillator strength/photoluminescence quantum yield ( Φ PL ). This study proposes an effective TADF molecular design strategy, which involves selecting a highly rigidity and planarity indolocarbazole (ICz) donor and a molecularly locked acceptor to construct molecules with a D-A-D configuration, successfully creating successfully creating emitters with high Φ PL and a small Δ E ST. These molecules exhibit strong TADF and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics in nondoped films, with Φ PL exceeding 70.0 % and small Δ E ST, small nonradiative transition rate constant, and larger reverse intersystem crossing constant ( k RISC ). Acting as excellent emitters in OLEDs, they provide efficient electroluminescence with CIE x,y =(0.148, 0.119) for 23bCzSOB and CIE x,y =(0.219, 0.463) for 23bCzTPO, with the highest current efficiency (CE max ) and external quantum efficiency (EQE max ) reaching 29.5 cd/A and 14.9 % for 23bCzSOB and 36.9 cd/A and 21.6 % for 23bCzTPO, respectively. These results indicate that the molecular design of efficient delayed fluorescence molecules is successful and promising.

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