Issue 2, 2024

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters showing wide-range near-infrared piezochromism and their use in deep-red OLEDs

Abstract

Organic small molecules exhibiting both thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and wide-ranging piezochromism (Δλ > 150 nm) in the near-infrared region have rarely been reported in the literature. We present three emitters MeTPA-BQ, tBuTPA-BQ and TPPA-BQ based on a hybrid acceptor, benzo[g]quinoxaline-5,10-dione, that emit via TADF, having photoluminescence quantum yields, ΦPL, of 39–42% at photoluminescence (PL) maxima, λPL, of 625–670 nm in 2 wt% doped films in 4,4′-bis(N-carbazolyl)-1,1′-biphenyl (CBP). Despite their similar chemical structures, the PL properties in the crystalline states of MeTPA-BQ (λem = 735 nm, ΦPL = 2%) and tBuTPA-BQ (λem = 657 nm, ΦPL = 11%) are significantly different. Further, compounds tBuTPA-BQ and TPPA-BQ showed a significant PL shift of ∼98 and ∼165 nm upon grinding of the crystalline samples, respectively. Deep-red organic light-emitting diodes with MeTPA-BQ and tBuTPA-BQ were also fabricated, which showed maximum external quantum efficiencies, EQEmax, of 10.1% (λEL = 650 nm) and 8.5% (λEL = 670 nm), respectively.

Graphical abstract: Thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters showing wide-range near-infrared piezochromism and their use in deep-red OLEDs

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
29 Sep 2023
Accepted
28 Nov 2023
First published
29 Nov 2023
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 545-554

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters showing wide-range near-infrared piezochromism and their use in deep-red OLEDs

P. Sudhakar, A. K. Gupta, D. B. Cordes and E. Zysman-Colman, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 545 DOI: 10.1039/D3SC05188A

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