Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Functional Materials
4 years ago

High-Efficiency Near-Infrared Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Small Efficiency Roll-Off: A Combined Design from Emitters to Devices

High-Efficiency Near-Infrared Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Small Efficiency Roll-Off: A Combined Design from Emitters to Devices
Juan Qiao, Lian Duan, Ruoyun Zhang, Jie Xue, Yunge Zhang, Qingxin Liang
The simultaneous realization of high quantum yield and exciton utilizing efficiency (ηr) is still a formidable challenge in near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (FOLEDs). Here, to achieve a high quantum yield, a novel NIR dye, 4,9-bis(4-(diphenylamino)phenyl)-naphtho[2,3-c][1,2,5]selenadiazole, is designed and synthesized with a large highest occupied molecular orbital/lowest unoccupied molecular orbital overlap and an aggregation-induced emission property, which demonstrates a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 27% at 743 nm in toluene and 29% at 723 nm in a blend film. For a high ηr, an orange-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescent material, 1,2-bis(9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine)-4,5-dicyanobenzene, is chosen as the sensitizing host to harvest triplet excitons in devices. The optimized devices achieve a good ηr of 45.7% and a high external quantum efficiency up to 2.65% at 730 nm, with a very small efficiency roll-off of 2.41% at 200 mA cm−2, which are among the most efficient values for NIR-FOLEDs over 700 nm. The effective utilization of triplet excitons via the thermally activated delayed fluorescence-sensitizing host will pave a way to realize high-efficiency NIR-FOLEDs with small efficiency roll-off. A novel and efficient near-infrared fluorescent emitter is designed and synthesized possessing aggregation-induced emission characteristic and a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 29% at 723 nm in the blend film. The optimized near-infrared fluorescent organic light emitting diode employing a thermal-activated delayed fluorescent material as the sensitizing host achieves a high maximum external quantum efficiency of 2.65% with an emission peak at 730 nm.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201703283

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