Mixed-host engineering of blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence devices for enhanced efficiency and suppressed efficiency roll-off

Soo Jong Park, Kwang Wook Choi, Young Wook Park, Byeong Kwon Ju*

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    Abstract

    Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with enhanced efficiency and suppressed efficiency roll-offs were fabricated using a mixed host consisting of 3,3-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)-biphenyl (mCBP) and bis[2-(diphenyl-phosphino)phenyl]ether oxide (DPEPO). Notably, mCBP and DPEPO, which are generally used as hosts in blue TADF OLEDs, exhibit material stability and efficiency as their trade-off characteristics. The mixed-host structure, when applied to 10,10′-(4,4′-sulfonylbis(4,1-phenylene))bis(9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine), which is a blue TADF dopant, facilitated a maximum efficiency of 18.1%. Furthermore, the critical current density (J0), at which the external quantum efficiency decreases by half of its maximum value, was observed to be 3.9 times that of the DPEPO device.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number110879
    JournalOptical Materials
    Volume113
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021 Mar

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2B5B01070286 , No. 2020R1C1C1013567 ) and the Brain Korea 21 Plus Project in 2020 .

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

    Keywords

    • Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
    • Capacitance–voltage
    • Mixed-host
    • Recombination zone
    • Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • General Computer Science
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Spectroscopy
    • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
    • Organic Chemistry
    • Inorganic Chemistry
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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