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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters are third-generation electroluminescent materials that realize highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) without using rare metals. Here, after briefly reviewing the principles of TADF and its use in OLEDs, we report a sky-blue TADF emitter, 9-(4-(benzo[ d]thiazol-2-yl)phenyl)- N3, N3, N6, N6-tetraphenyl-9 H-carbazole-3,6-diamine (DAC-BTZ). DAC-BTZ is a purely organic donor-acceptor-type molecule with a small energy difference between its lowest excited singlet state and lowest triplet state of 0.18-0.22 eV according to fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra of a DAC-BTZ-doped film. In addition, the doped film exhibits a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 0.82. Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements of the doped film confirm that DAC-BTZ emits TADF. An OLED containing DAC-BTZ as an emitter exhibits a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 10.3%, which exceeds those obtained with conventional fluorescent emitters (5-7.5%). TADF from DAC-BTZ makes a large contribution to the high EQE of its OLED. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metal complexes emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence based on intra-ligand charge transfer and enhanced by metallization were synthesized. Organic light-emitting diodes using a thermally stable zinc complex processed by vacuum vapor deposition achieved an external quantum efficiency of nearly 20%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inherent flexibility afforded by molecular design has accelerated the development of a wide variety of organic semiconductors over the past two decades. In particular, great advances have been made in the development of materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), from early devices based on fluorescent molecules to those using phosphorescent molecules. In OLEDs, electrically injected charge carriers recombine to form singlet and triplet excitons in a 1:3 ratio; the use of phosphorescent metal-organic complexes exploits the normally non-radiative triplet excitons and so enhances the overall electroluminescence efficiency. Here we report a class of metal-free organic electroluminescent molecules in which the energy gap between the singlet and triplet excited states is minimized by design, thereby promoting highly efficient spin up-conversion from non-radiative triplet states to radiative singlet states while maintaining high radiative decay rates, of more than 106 decays per second. In other words, these molecules harness both singlet and triplet excitons for light emission through fluorescence decay channels, leading to an intrinsic fluorescence efficiency in excess of 90 per cent and a very high external electroluminescence efficiency, of more than 19 per cent, which is comparable to that achieved in high-efficiency phosphorescence-based OLEDs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence was observed from a spiro-anthracenone derivative (ACRSA). An organic light-emitting diode containing ACRSA exhibited blue-greenish electroluminescence with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 16.5%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We demonstrate that horizontally oriented organic semiconducting molecules in amorphous films can be oriented uniaxially by mechanical brushing. The absorption of polarized light in the direction parallel to the brushing direction was higher than the absorption in the perpendicular direction. Thus, simultaneous uniaxial and in-plane molecular orientation in amorphous films was realized by brushing. In addition, we demonstrate a polarized electroluminescence from the films treated by mechanical brushing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have designed and synthesized a high-efficiency purely organic luminescent material, 2,4-bis{3-(9 H-carbazol-9-yl)-9 H-carbazol-9-yl}-6-phenyl-1,3,5-triazine (CC2TA) comprising the bicarbazole donor and phenyltriazine acceptor units, which is capable of emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The molecular design of CC2TA allows spatial separation of HOMO and LUMO on the donor and acceptor fragments, respectively, leading to an exceptionally small singlet-triplet exchange energy (ΔEST = 0.06 eV) together with a high triplet energy. Furthermore, a high external electroluminescence quantum efficiency as high as 11% ± 1% has been achieved in the sky-blue organic light-emitting diodes employing CC2TA as an emitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]