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Amplified spontaneous emission and random lasing behavior are demonstrated from our synthesized donor–acceptor–donor dye-covered biocompatible silk fibroin (DC-SF) film and the DC-SF film with embedded silver nanoprisms, respectively.

Pictorial representation of high-bandwidth WLEDs by utilizing combinations of perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) and organic materials as color converters under the excitation of a semipolar blue micro-LED.

Recently, conductive-bridging memristors based on metal halides, such as halide perovskites, have been demonstrated as promising components for brain-inspired hardware-based neuromorphic computing. However, realizing devices that simultaneously fulfill all of the key merits (low operating voltage, high dynamic range, multilevel nonvolatile storage capability, and good endurance) remains a great challenge. Herein, we describe lead-free cesium halide memristors incorporating a MoO

Owing to the high technology maturity of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter design with a specific molecular shape, extremely high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have recently been achieved

The phosphor-converted light-emitting diode (PC-LED) has become an indispensable solid-state lighting and display technologies in the modern society. Nevertheless, the use of scarce rare-earth elements and the thermal quenching (TQ) behavior are still two most crucial issues yet to be solved. Here, this work successfully demonstrates a highly efficient and thermally stable green emissive MnI

The most attractive aspect of perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) for optoelectronic applications is their widely tunable emission wavelength, but it has been quite challenging to tune it without sacrificing the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). In this work, we report a facile ligand-optimized ion-exchange (LOIE) method to convert room-temperature spray-synthesized, perovskite parent NCs that emit a saturated green color to NCs capable of emitting colors across the entire visible spectrum. These NCs exhibited exceptionally stable and high PLQYs, particularly for the pure blue (96%) and red (93%) primary colors that are indispensable for display applications. Surprisingly, the blue- and red-emissive NCs obtained using the LOIE method preserved the cubic shape and cubic phase structure that they inherited from their parent NCs, while exhibiting high crystallinity and high color-purity. Together with the parent green-emissive NCs, the obtained blue- and red-emissive NCs provided a very wide color gamut, corresponding to a Digital Cinema Initiatives-P3 of 140% or an International Telecommunication Union Recommendation BT.2020 of 102%. With the superior optical merits of these LOIE-manipulated NCs, a corresponding color conversion luminescence device provided a high external quantum efficiency (10.5%) and extremely high brightness (970 000 cd/m2). This study provides a valid route toward highly stable, extremely emissive, and panchromatic perovskite NCs with potential use in a variety of future optoelectronic applications.

Although colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) exhibit desirable emitter characteristics with high quantum yields and narrow bandwidths, instability has limited their applications in devices. In this paper, we describe spray-synthesized CsPbI3 PQD quantum emitters displaying strong photon antibunching and high brightness at room temperature and stable performance under continuous excitation with a high-intensity laser for more than 24 h. Our PQDs provided high single-photon emission rates, exceeding 9 × 106 count/s, after excluding multiexciton emissions and strong photon antibunching, as confirmed by low values of the second-order correlation function g(2)(0) (reaching 0.021 and 0.061 for the best and average PQD performance, respectively). With such high brightness and stability, we applied our PQDs as quantum random number generators, which demonstrably passed all of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's randomness tests. Intriguingly, all of the PQDs exhibited self-healing behavior and restored their PL intensities to greater than half of their initial values after excitation at extremely high intensity. Half of the PQDs even recovered almost all of their initial PL intensity. The robust properties of these spray-synthesized PQDs resulted from high crystallinity and good ligand encapsulation. Our results suggest that spray-synthesized PQDs have great potential for use in future quantum technologies (e.g., quantum communication, quantum cryptography, and quantum computing).

In recent years, perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) with the incorporation of transition-metal ions for reducing toxicity and enhancing stability have been in a research hotspot. However, the PQDs cont...

This paper reports packing-shape effects of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) through orbital polarization dynamics between light-emitting excitons by stacking perovskite (MAPbBr

Recently, extracting hot electrons from plasmonic nanostructures and utilizing them to enhance the optical quantum yield of two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been topics ...

A sensitive and fast ultraviolet (UV) photodetector is strongly desirable because of its wide range of applications in chemical/biological sensing and imaging. CsPbCl3-based thin film photodetectors have not been constructed previously owing to their extremely poor precursor solubility; however, vapor deposition allows for thin film fabrication without the limitation of solubility. Therefore, this work is the first to demonstrate the optoelectronic properties of inorganic CsPbCl3 perovskite thin films and UV photodiodes using all-vacuum deposition. The perovskites annealed at 120 °C exhibited outstanding performance, including a notable external quantum efficiency value of 797.1% with an applied bias of -2 V, an outstanding detectivity of 1.4 × 1013 Jones, a short response time as low as ∼ 50 μs, and a large linear dynamic range of up to 136 dB. CsPbCl3 thin films manufactured by this vacuum-deposited approach were also found to be moisture-resistant and demonstrated high durability. The devices maintained excellent performance and demonstrated less than 10% degradation after 30 days. Thus, thin film visible-blind UV detectors can potentially be used in transparent smart displays, window-integrated electronic circuits, and sensor applications.

We have used functionalized carbazoles and indenoquonoxalines as the main building units and enthynyl groups as the π-linkages to construct two novel dendritic fluorophores and studied their degenerate multi-photon absorption properties in both the solution phase and the neat-film state within femtosecond and nanosecond regions. In our experiments, these model compounds are found to manifest strong and widely dispersed two-photon absorption as well as effective power-limiting properties against ultra-short laser pulses in the near-IR region. In addition, both chromophores exhibit medium to strong three-photon-induced fluorescence, indicating such scaffold may serve as a reference structural motif for the development of three-photon materials.

Three pyridine-carbonitrile-carbazole-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials with highly sterically congested structures have been synthesized. The donor-acceptor-type TADF emitters (26-, 246-, and 35tCzPPC) consist of a 2,6-diphenylpyridine-3,5-dicarbonitrile core (PPC) as the acceptor and a di( t-butyl)carbazole-substituted phenyl group attached to C4 of the PC core as the donor. The molecules show a unique structure containing two consecutive large twisted angles along the donor and acceptor groups. The structure leads to a nearly complete space separation of the highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital, a small Δ E

Although colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) exhibit desirable emitter characteristics with high quantum yields and narrow bandwidths, instability has limited their applications in devices. In this paper, we describe spray-synthesized CsPbI

Lead halide perovskite materials have recently received considerable attention for achieving an economic and tunable laser owing to their solution-processable feature and promising optical properties. However, most reported perovskite-based lasers operate with a large lasing-mode volume, resulting in a high lasing threshold due to the inefficient coupling between the optical gain medium and cavity. Here, we demonstrate a continuous-wave nanolasing from a single lead halide perovskite (CsPbBr3) quantum dot (PQD) in a plasmonic gap-mode nanocavity with an ultralow threshold of 1.9 Wcm-2 under 120 K. The calculated ultrasmall mode volume (∼0.002 λ3) with a z-polarized dipole and the significantly large Purcell enhancement at the corner of the nanocavity inside the gap dramatically enhance the light-matter interaction in the nanocavity, thus facilitating lasing. The demonstration of PQD nanolasing with an ultralow-threshold provides an approach for realizing on-chip electrically driven lasing and integration into on-chip plasmonic circuitry for ultrafast optical communication and quantum information processing.

The performance of vacuum-deposited organometal halide perovskite devices under low-intensity illumination was investigated. The low defect density of the vacuum-deposited perovskite thin film facilitates the development of a high performance device with low-cost C60 as the electron transporting layer, which is superior to solution-processed cells made by a 2-step spin-casting method with expensive fullerene derivatives. The small-area vacuum-deposited devices exhibited high power conversion efficiencies and output power densities of up to 30.1% and 94.9 μW cm−2 at 1000 lux and 28.5% and 18.1 μW cm−2 at 200 lux, respectively. The large-area vacuum-deposited devices with an active area of 5.68 cm2 showed high reproducibility and exhibited high power conversion efficiencies and output power densities up to 24.9% and 77.6 μW cm−2 at 1000 lux and 21.9% and 13.8 μW cm−2 at 200 lux, respectively. Moreover, the small- and large-area devices also showed good stability and a negligible efficiency decrease in one year. The high performance and high stability results indicate that vacuum-deposited perovskite photovoltaics are one of the most promising energy harvesters for low-power electronics in the future.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are promising for the realization of highly efficient light emitters. However, such devices have so far suffered from efficiency roll-off at high luminance. Here, we report the design and synthesis of two diboron-based molecules, CzDBA and tBuCzDBA, which show excellent TADF properties and yield efficient OLEDs with very low efficiency roll-off. These donor–acceptor–donor (D–A–D) type and rod-like compounds concurrently generate TADF with a photoluminescence quantum yield of ~100% and an 84% horizontal dipole ratio in the thin film. A green OLED based on CzDBA exhibits a high external quantum efficiency of 37.8 ± 0.6%, a current efficiency of 139.6 ± 2.8 cd A−1 and a power efficiency of 121.6 ± 3.1 lm W−1 with an efficiency roll-off of only 0.3% at 1,000 cd m−2. The device has a peak emission wavelength of 528 nm and colour coordinates of the Commission International de l´Eclairage (CIE) of (0.31, 0.61), making it attractive for colour-display applications.

In this work, a sequential vacuum deposition process of bright, highly crystalline, and smooth methylammonium lead bromide and phenethylammonium lead bromide perovskite thin films are investigated and the first vacuum-deposited organometallic halide perovskite light-emitting devices (PeLEDs) are demonstrated. Exceptionally low refractive indices and extinction coefficients in the emission wavelength range are obtained for these films, which contributed to a high light out-coupling efficiency of the PeLEDs. By utilizing these perovskite thin films as emission layers, the vacuum-deposited PeLEDs exhibit a very narrow saturated green electroluminescence at 531 nm, with a spectral full width at half-maximum bandwidth of 18.6 nm, a promising brightness of up to 6200 cd/m2, a current efficiency of 1.3 cd/A, and an external quantum efficiency of 0.36%.

Hole transporting layers (HTLs) have critical roles in the performance of perovskite solar cells. In this study, films of the vacuum-deposited small molecule of Tris[4-(5-phenylthiophene-2-yl)phenyl]amine (TPTPA) are demonstrated as efficient HTL materials for perovskite solar cells. The horizontal molecular stacking of the TPTPA neat film leads to the exceptionally high hole drift mobility of 7 × 10 −3 cm 2 V −1 s −1 , among the highest values observed in the organic molecular neat films. By doping with MoO 3 , a clear charge transfer state is formed and the hole mobility further increases to 3.6 × 10 −2 cm 2 V −1 s −1 . Both normal- and inverted-structured perovskite solar cells utilizing these HTLs are prepared and optimized; they show high power conversion efficiencies of 17–18%.

Inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising devices for providing future clean energy because of their low cost, ease of fabrication, and high efficiencies, similar to those of silicon solar cells. These materials have been investigated for their potential use in bifacial PSCs, which can absorb light from both sides of the electrodes. Here, we fabricated bifacial PSCs featuring transparent BCP/Ag/MoO3 rear electrodes, which we formed through low-temperature processing using thermal evaporation methods. We employed a comprehensive optical distribution program to calculate the distributions of the optical field intensities with constant thicknesses of the absorbing layer in the top electrode configuration. The best PSC having a transparent BCP/Ag/MoO3 electrode achieved PCEs of 13.49% and 9.61% when illuminated from the sides of the indium tin oxide and BCP/Ag/MoO3 electrodes, respectively. We observed significant power enhancement when operating this PSC using mirror reflectors and...

Simultaneous enhancement of out-coupling efficiency, internal quantum efficiency, and color purity in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters is highly desired for the practical application of these materials. We designed and synthesized two isomeric TADF emitters, 2DPyM-mDTC and 3DPyM-pDTC, based on di(pyridinyl)methanone (DPyM) cores as the new electron-accepting units and di(tert-butyl)carbazole (DTC) as the electron-donating units. 3DPyM-pDTC, which is structurally nearly planar with a very small ΔEST, shows higher color purity, horizontal ratio, and quantum yield than 2DPyM-mDTC, which has a more flexible structure. An electroluminescence device based on 3DPyM-pDTC as the dopant emitter can reach an extremely high external quantum efficiency of 31.9% with a pure blue emission. This work also demonstrates a way to design materials with a high portion of horizontal molecular orientation to realize a highly efficient pure-blue device based on TADF emitters.

In this paper, we demonstrate that the performance of perovskite solar cells can be largely boosted with sub-nm pyridine-containing small-molecule electron interfacial layers. These vacuum-deposited sub-nm layers between perovskites and electron transport layers create a permanent dipole moment that improves the interfacial energy level alignment and facilitates a fast electron sweep-out. With these interfacial layers, the devices exhibit exceptional power conversion efficiencies up to 18.8%, a 25% increase compared to that of the one without the interfacial layer.

We demonstrate a simple but effective method to control the orientation of silver nanowires (AgNWs). Shear-flow-induced AgNW preferable orientation is realized by judiciously controlling the process parameters in the bar-coating method. This controllability of the NW direction enables the formation of AgNW cross-linking networks for transparent conductive electrode (TCE) applications. We experimentally demonstrate that the orthogonally weaved AgNW networks possess predominant advantages of lower percolation limit, higher transmission, and lower sheet resistance compared with the randomly orientated AgNW counterparts. The phenomenon is also confirmed with theoretical calculation by the Monte Carlo method. These high-quality AgNW TCEs exhibit a high transmittance of ∼94% with a sheet resistance of ∼20 Ω/sq, which meet the requirements of modern optoelectronic devices. Very efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic solar cells (OSCs) prepared by these AgNW TCEs are demonstrated. The OLED exhibits exceptionally high luminance efficiency, power efficacy, and external quantum efficiency of 92 cd/A, 111 lm/W, and 26.8%, respectively. The OSCs also deliver a high power conversion efficiency of up to 7.5%.

A sensitive and fast ultraviolet (UV) photodetector is strongly desirable because of its wide range of applications in chemical/biological sensing and imaging. CsPbCl

The search for stable alternative lead-free perovskites has identified all-inorganic antimony/bismuth halide derivatives as promising materials. Despite attractive optoelectronic properties, their wider band gaps and poor morphological control have greatly limited their solar device performance. In this study, we used the indacenodithiophene-based organic acceptor (ITIC) as a Lewis base to improve the morphology of Cs3Sb2I9 films and also as an electron transport layer to form a complimentary heterojunction, and, thereby, enhance the performance of Cs3Sb2I9 solar cells. The presence of cyano and carbonyl groups in ITIC modulated the rate of crystallization of Cs3Sb2I9 and improved its optoelectronic properties. The panchromatic absorption of the Cs3Sb2I9/ITIC heterostructure provided a power conversion efficiency of 3.25% in inverted solar cell structure under 1-sun irradiation. This enhanced performance when using a complimentary absorption strategy suggests a new pathway for developing wider-band-gap lead-free perovskite derivatives for solar cell applications. Moreover, the optimized Cs3Sb2I9/ITIC heterostructure–based solar cell achieved a PCE of 9.2% under indoor illumination at 1000 lx, highlighting the potential use of such devices in indoor applications.

Recently, thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have become the most promising hosts for realizing high-performance phosphorescent and fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) because of their ability to upconvert triplet excitons to singlet excitons. However, despite a few TADF hosts having been introduced for low energy phosphorescent and fluorescent dopants, developing host materials with TADF properties for blue phosphorescent and TADF OLEDs is still a great challenge to date. In this study, bipolar hosts exhibiting TADF behavior and high triplet energy, consisting of the carbazole group as the donor, diphenylsulphone moiety as the acceptor, and m-bitolyl as the π-conjugated bridge, are synthesized and applied for the first time to blue devices. The ΔEST value of the TADF host is tuned via the introduction of a cyano group in the carbazole moiety due to the increase of the LE contribution in the CT excited state. Detailed photophysical studies confirm the efficient TADF pr...

A variety of crystalline colloid binary halide, ternary perovskite-like and ternary perovskite-derivative nanostructures with well-defined morphologies were synthesized, thus expanding materials chemistry to the new category of nanomaterials. The optical and photocatalytic properties of ternary nanostructures were investigated.

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters are attractive for display and lighting applications. Here, a series of highly efficient blue TADF emitters including 3,5-bis((3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl)(pyridin-4-yl)methanone (4BPy-mDTC), (3,5-bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl)(pyridin-3-yl)methanone (3BPy-mDTC), (3,5-bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl)(pyridin-2-yl)methanone (2BPy-mDTC) and (3,5-bis(3,6-di-tert-butyl-9H-carbazol-9-yl)phenyl)(phenyl)methanone (BP-mDTC) were designed and synthesized. The molecular structures feature two meta carbazole substituents attached to a benzoylpyridine (BPy) group or to a benzophenone (BP) group. These compounds show high thermal stability (Td = 371–439 °C), blue emissions (458–488 nm), high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQY) (75–96%) in thin films and very small energy gaps between S1 and T1 (ΔEST) of 0.01–0.05 eV. In addition, they all reveal TADF properties including small ΔEST, two components in the transient PL decays, prompt emission and temperature-dependent delayed emission. The BPy series appears to give much higher photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQY > 92%) than BP-mDTC (75%) plausibly due to the more rigid structure caused by the interaction between pyridine nitrogen and the aromatic C–H bond. Furthermore, 4BPy-mDTC shows a more delayed component compared to 3BPy-mDTC and 2BPy-mDTC. The electroluminescent devices based on 4BPy-mDTC and 2BPy-mDTC as the dopant emitters exhibit sky blue emission with maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) over 28%, and current and power efficiency and maximum luminance up to 67.0 cd A−1, 60.1 lm W−1 and 20 000 cd m−2, respectively. The presence of the pyridine ring and the position of the nitrogen atom in the molecules are critical for the high quantum yield and device efficiency. The PLQY EQE and luminance are dramatically improved by changing the phenyl into a pyridine group in the dopant in these devices.

New design of Pt(II) phosphors yield near-infrared organic light-emitting diodes with high efficiency and brightness.

We have successfully synthesized a series of blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters, BPy-pC, BPy-pTC, BPy-p2C, and BPy-p3C, bearing a 4-benzoylpyridine core as the electron-accepting unit and carbazolyl, tert-butylcarbazolyl, dicarbazolyl, and tercarbazolyl groups as the electron-donating units, respectively. The density functional theory calculation shows that all of the compounds have their lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals on the benzoylpyridine moiety. However, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of BPy-p3C is widely dispersed to the whole tercarbazolyl group, while the HOMOs of BPy-pC and BPy-pTC are mainly on the carbazolyl and extended to the phenyl ring. As a result, ΔEST is reduced from 0.29 eV for BPy-pC to 0.05 eV for BPy-p3C, and the organic light-emitting diodes using these materials as dopants emit blue light and their maximum external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) increase from 4.2% to 23.9% for BPy-pC and BPy-p3C, respectively. The EQE of the BPy-p3C-based device...

Two D-π-A-A molecules (MIDTP and TIDTP) composed of an electron-rich ditolylamino group (D) and an electron-deficient 5-dicyanovinylenylpyrimidine (A-A) fragment bridged together with indeno[1,2-b]thiophene (IDT) were synthesized. These molecules provide an opportunity to examine in-depth the impact of side-chain variations (methyl vs p-tolyl) on the crystallization behaviors, solid-state morphology, physical properties, and optoelectronic characteristics relevant for practical applications. X-ray analyses on single-crystal structures indicate that methyl-substituted MIDTP forms "coplanar antiparallel dimers" via C-H···S interactions and organizes into an ordered slip-staircase arrays. In contrast, p-tolyl-bearing TIDTP shows "cofacial centrosymmetric dimers" via π-π interactions and packs into a less-ordered layered structures. The X-ray diffraction analyses upon thermal treatment are consistent with a superior crystallinity of MIDTP, as compared to that of TIDTP. This difference indicates a greater propensity to organization by introduction of the smaller methyl group versus the bulkier p-tolyl group. The increased propensity for order by MIDTP facilitates the crystallization of MIDTP in both solution-processed and vacuum-deposited thin films. MIDTP forms solution-processed single-crystal arrays that deliver OFET hole mobility of 6.56 × 10(-4) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), whereas TIDTP only forms amorhpous films that gave lower hole mobility of 1.34 × 10(-5) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1). MIDTP and TIDTP were utilized to serve as donors together with C70 as acceptor in the fabrication of small-molecule organic solar cells (SMOSCs) with planar heterojunction (PHJ) or planar-mixed heterojunction (PMHJ) device architectures. OPV devices based on higher crystalline MIDTP delivered power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 2.5% and 4.3% for PHJ and PMHJ device, respectively, which are higher than those of TIDTP-based cells. The improved PCEs of MIDTP-based devices are attributed to better hole-transport character.

All-vacuum-deposited perovskite solar cells produced by controlling reagent partial pressure in high vacuum with newly developed multi-layer electron and hole transporting structures show outstanding power conversion efficiency of 17.6% and smooth, pinhole-free, micrometer-sized perovskite crystal grains.

Further technological development of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) will require improvements in power conversion efficiency and stability, while maintaining low material costs and simple fabrication. In this Research Article, we describe top-illuminated ITO-free, stable PSCs featuring microcavity structures, wherein metal layers on both sides on the active layers exerted light interference effects in the active layer, potentially increasing the light path length inside the active layer. The optical constants (refractive index and extinction coefficient) of each layer in the PSC devices were measured, while the optical field intensity distribution was simulated using the transfer matrix method. The photocurrent densities of perovskite layers of various thicknesses were also simulated; these results mimic our experimental values exceptionally well. To modify the cavity electrode surface, we deposited a few nanometers of ultrathin MoO3 (2, 4, and 6 nm) in between the Ag and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) layers provide hydrophobicity to the Ag surface and elevate the work function of Ag to match that of the hole transport layer. We achieved a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 13.54% without hysteresis in the device containing a 4 nm-thick layer of MoO3. In addition, we fabricated these devices on various cavity electrodes (Al, Ag, Au, Cu); those prepared using Cu and Au anodes displayed improved device stability of up to 72 days. Furthermore, we prepared flexible PSCs having a PCE of 12.81% after incorporating the microcavity structures onto poly(ethylene terephthalate) as the substrate. These flexible solar cells displayed excellent stability against bending deformation, maintaining greater than 94% stability after 1000 bending cycles and greater than 85% after 2500 bending cycles performed with a bending radius of 5 mm.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a low driving voltage and efficient blue fluorescence were fabricated through blade coating. Tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum (Alq3) is a relatively stable electron-transporting material commonly used in evaporation. However, depositing Alq3 through a solution process is difficult because of its extremely low solubility organic solvents, a result of its symmetrical molecular structure. In this study, Alq3 was successfully deposited through blade coating at a very low concentration below 0.1wt%. The OLEDs contained co-dopants BUBD-1 and p-bis(p-N,N-diphenyl-aminostyryl)benzene (DSA-Ph), and a high-band-gap host 2-methyl-9,10-bis(naphthalen-2-yl)anthracene (MADN) as the emission layer with the following structure: ITO/PEDOT:PSS (40 nm)/VB-FNPD (30 nm)/MADN:2% BUBD-1:1% DSA-Ph (50 nm)/TPBI (30 nm)/LiF (0.8 nm)/Al (100 nm)or ITO/PEDOT:PSS (40 nm)/VB-FNPD (30 nm)/MADN:3% BUBD-1 (50 nm)tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum (Alq3; 10 nm)/LiF (0.8 nm)/Al (100 nm). 2,7-disubstituted fluorene-based triaryldiamine(VB-FNPD)is the cross-linking transporting material. The device exhibited a peak current efficiency of 5.67 cd/A for Alq3 and 5.76 cd/A for TPBI. The device with Alq3 has operated lifetime seven times higher than the device with TPBI.

Two benzoylpyridine-carbazole based fluorescence materials DCBPy and DTCBPy, bearing two carbazolyl and 4-(t-butyl)carbazolyl groups, respectively, at the meta and ortho carbons of the benzoyl ring, were synthesized. These molecules show very small ΔEST of 0.03 and 0.04 eV and transient PL characteristics indicating that they are thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials. In addition, they show extremely different photoluminescent quantum yields in solution and in the solid state: in cyclohexane the value are 14 and 36%, but in the thin films, the value increase to 88.0 and 91.4%, respectively. The OLEDs using DCBPy and DTCBPy as dopants emit blue and green light with EQEs of 24.0 and 27.2%, respectively, and with low efficiency roll-off at practical brightness level. The crystal structure of DTCBPy reveals a substantial interaction between the ortho donor (carbazolyl) and acceptor (4-pyridylcarbonyl) unit. This interaction between donor and acceptor substituents likely play a key role to achieve very small ΔEST with high photoluminescence quantum yield.