Rational Design of Strongly Blue-Emitting Cuprous Complexes with Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Application in Solution-Processed OLEDs

被引:267
作者
Chen, Xu-Lin [1 ,3 ]
Yu, Rongmin [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Qi-Kai [1 ]
Zhou, Liu-Jiang [1 ,3 ]
Wu, Ciao-Yuan [1 ]
Zhang, Qing [1 ,3 ]
Lu, Can-Zhong [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Fujian Inst Res Struct Matter, State Key Lab Struct Chem, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Design & Assembly Funct Nanostruct, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
blue emission; cuprous complex; thermally activated delayed fluorescence; OLED; TRIPLET ENERGY-LEVEL; CU-I COMPLEXES; COPPER(I) COMPLEXES; IRIDIUM COMPLEXES; ANCILLARY LIGAND; CU(I) COMPLEXES; DIODES; EMISSION; GREEN; LUMINESCENCE;
D O I
10.1021/cm4024309
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A new series of strongly greenish-blue to blue emitting Cu(NN)(POP)(+) (POP = bis[2-(dipenylphosphino)phenyl]ether) complexes containing N-linked 2-pyridyl pyrazolate diimine ligands [Cu(pypz)(POP)]BF4 (1), [Cu(pympz)(POP)]BF4 (2), and [Cu(pytfmpz)(POP)]BF4 (3) (pypz = 1-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole, pympz = 3-methyl-1-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole, and pytfmpz = 3-trifluoromethyl-1-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole) have been designed and synthesized. Their structural, electrochemical, and photophysical properties have been characterized. The complexes 1-3 exhibit high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs) at room temperature both in nitrogen-saturated CH2Cl2 (up to 45%) and in neat solid (up to 87%), which are comparable to the reported highest values for the cuprous complexes. The temperature dependence of spectroscopic properties and emission decay behaviors reveal the presence of two thermally equilibrated emitting states. At temperatures below 150 K, the lowest triplet state (T-1) is the predominant emitting state resulting in the typical phosphorescence with the emission decay times in the order of hundreds of microseconds. However, at ambient temperature, the lowest singlet state (S-1), which lies only about 0.17-0.18 eV above the T-1 state, is populated thermally and in turn generates efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), and the emission decay times are reduced dramatically to, e.g., 12.2 mu s for 2. Solution-processed OLEDs containing 1-3 in the emissive layer demonstrated excellent device performances by taking advantage of the singlet harvesting mechanism, among which the electroluminescent device using 3 shows a peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 8.47%, a peak current efficiency (CE) of 23.68 cd/A, and a maximum brightness of 2033 cd/m(2).
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页码:3910 / 3920
页数:11
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