Asymmetric Structural Engineering of Hot‐Exciton Emitters Achieving a Breakthrough in Non‐Doped BT.2020 Blue OLEDs with a Record 9.5% External Quantum Efficiency
High-efficiency non-doped deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) meeting the standard of BT.2020 color gamut is desired but rarely reported. Herein, an asymmetric structural engineering based on crossed long-short axis (CLSA) strategy is developed to obtain three new deep-blue emitters (BICZ, PHDPYCZ, and PHPYCZ) with a hot-exciton characteristic. Compared to 2BuCz-CNCz featuring a symmetric single hole-transport framework, these asymmetric emitters with the introduction of different electron-transport units show the enhancement of photoluminescence efficiency and improvement of bipolar charge transport capacity. Further combined with high radiative exciton utilization efficiency and light outcoupling efficiency, the non-doped OLED based on PHPYCZ exhibits the best performance with an excellent current efficiency of 3.49%, a record-high maximum external quantum efficiency of 9.5%, and a CIE y coordinate of 0.049 approaching the BT.2020 blue point. The breakthrough obtained in this work can inspire the molecular design of deep-blue emitters for high-performance non-doped BT.2020 blue OLEDs.
Authors
- Dezhi Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3469-0102)
- Yu Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-2690)
- Baoling Wang
- Dongge Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-9715)
- Ben Zhong Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-964X)
- Zhiming Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3047-3285)
- Han Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4069-1769)
- Lu Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8090-5579)
- B. Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9726-6707)
- Bingzhu Ma
Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
- State Intellectual Property Office (CN)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CN)
- Beijing Meteorological Bureau (CN)
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- South China University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Science
- Published
- 2024-08-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202407254
- Citations
- 25
- Primary Topic
- Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.22
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Innovation and Technology Commission
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
- South China University of Technology
- Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province