摘要
Abundant efforts have been devoted to improving the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs),however,approaches to control the device efficiency roll-off are still extremely limited,especially in nondoped blue OLEDs.In this work,three blue emitters(TAT,TAMT and TAMT-CN)with"hot exciton"properties are designed and synthesized based on[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyridine(TP)as a regulating unit as well as anthracene-triphenylamine(An-TPA)as the chromophore.By adjusting the linkage mode and modifying the TP unit,the excited state properties,carrier transfer abilities,horizontal orientation,and device efficiency roll-off were precisely controlled.Among these materials,emitters that directly connect the fused TP unit exhibit balanced charge-transporting ability,higher photoluminescent quantum yield and improved horizontal orientation,resulting in better electroluminescence(EL)performance in non-doped blue OLEDs.As a result,non-doped blue OLEDs exhibit excellent performance with external quantum efficiencies of over 6%,brightness of over 30,000 cd/m2and EL peaks of around 476 nm.More importantly,the device based on TAMT-CN exhibits an ultra-low efficiency roll-off of 2.97%at a high brightness of10,000 cd/m2.The accessible molecular unit and feasible design strategy in this work are of great significance for designing highly efficient and ultra-low efficiency roll-off non-doped blue OLEDs.
基金
the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52273187 and 51973107)
the Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme 2019(No.GDUPS2019)。
