1,3,4-oxadiazole-based deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light emitting diodes

Zhaoning Li; Wenbo Li; Changmin Keum; Emily Archer; Baomin Zhao; Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin; Wei Huang; Malte Christian Gather; Ifor David William Samuel; Eli Zysman-Colman

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08479

1,3,4-oxadiazole-based deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light emitting diodes

Zhaoning Li, Wenbo Li, Changmin Keum, Emily Archer, Baomin Zhao, Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin, Wei Huang, Malte Christian Gather, Ifor David William Samuel, Eli Zysman-Colman

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A series of four 1,3,4-oxadiazole-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) derivatives are reported as emitters for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). As a function of the nature of the substituent on the weak 1,3,4-oxadiazole acceptor their emission color could be tuned from green-blue to blue. The highly twisted conformation between carbazoles and oxadiazoles results in effective separation of the HOMO and the LUMO resulting in a small singlet-triplet splitting. The corresponding singlet-triplet energy gaps (∆E_ST) range from 0.22 to 0.28 eV resulting in an efficient reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process and moderate to high photoluminescence quantum yields (Φ_PL), ranging from 35 to 70% in a DPEPO matrix. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on i-2CzdOXD4CF3Ph achieve maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE_max) of up to 12.3% with a sky-blue emission at CIE of (0.18, 0.28) while the device based on i-2CzdOXDMe shows blue emission at CIE of (0.17, 0.17) with a maximum EQE of 11.8%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24772-24785
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry
Volume	123
Issue number	40
Early online date	16 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08479
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2019

Keywords

Oxadiazole
TADF
OLED
Orientation
Transition dipole
Blue emitter

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Chemistry EPSRC-JSPS: EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Grant Application
Zysman-Colman, E. (PI)
1/08/18 → 31/01/24
Project: Standard
TADF Emitters for OLEDs - Ifor Samuel: TADF Emitters for OLEDs
Samuel, I. D. W. (PI)
EPSRC
1/03/17 → 28/02/20
Project: Standard
TADF Emitters for OLEDs - Eli Zysman: TADF Emitters for OLEDs
Zysman-Colman, E. (PI)
EPSRC
1/03/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Standard

New Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters and Room-Temperature Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence (thesis data)
Li, W. (Creator) & Samuel, I. D. W. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 23 Jan 2024
DOI: 10.17630/24c82e40-099d-4bbd-9a3d-6f76a1c7593c
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1,3,4-oxadiazole-based deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light emitting diodes

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TADF Emitters for OLEDs - Ifor Samuel: TADF Emitters for OLEDs

TADF Emitters for OLEDs - Eli Zysman: TADF Emitters for OLEDs

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New Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters and Room-Temperature Organic Long-Persistent Luminescence (thesis data)

1,3,4-Oxadiazole-based Deep-blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (dataset)

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