1. Asymmetric intramolecular charge transfer enables highly efficient red thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters.
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Qu, Chao, Wang, Huiqin, Man, Yi, Li, Zhe, Ma, Peng, Chang, Peng, Li, Xin, Han, Chunmiao, Pang, Yudong, and Xu, Hui
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INTRAMOLECULAR charge transfer , *INTRAMOLECULAR proton transfer reactions , *DELAYED fluorescence , *CHARGE transfer , *STERIC hindrance , *QUANTUM efficiency , *ELECTROLUMINESCENCE - Abstract
[Display omitted] • "Asymmetric D-A-wA" strategy is demonstrated for high-efficiency red TADF emitters. • Diphenylphosphine oxide as the second acceptor markedly improves TADF properties. • Strong red emission peaked at 645 nm with a high PLQY of 94.7 % is realized. • The maxima of 19360 cd m−2 for luminance and 11.4 % for EQE at 632 nm are achieved. A feasible strategy of asymmetric donor–acceptor-second acceptor (D-A-A) structure is proposed for improving the photoluminecense (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) performance of red thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. As a concept, four newly TADF emitters are designed and synthesized, D-A-A structure o TPAPO-DTPZ and p TPAPO-DTPZ and D-A-D type o DTPA-DTPZ and p DTPA-DTPZ, by using triphenylamine (TPA), dithieno[2,3- a :3′,2′- c ]phenazine (DTPZ) and diphenylphosphine oxide (DPPO) groups as the donor, acceptor and second acceptor, respectively. It is demonstrated that abound intra- and inter-molecular C H···O hydrogen bonds are forming between TPA donor and DPPO acceptor for the asymmetric compounds, which effectively promote the intra- and inter-molecular charge transfer. Moreover, the steric hindrance of DPPO group availably suppresses the concentration quenching. As a consequence, the asymmetric D-A-A structured o TPAPO-DTPZ and p TPAPO-DTPZ exhibit relatively higher PL quantum yields and lower nonradiation rates, and thus better EL performance. In particular, device based on p TPAPO-DTPZ achieves the maximum luminance of 19360 cd m−2 and external quantum efficiency of 11.4 % at 632 nm, which are 2.3 and 1.5 times the values of p DTPA-DTPZ based device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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