Extremely stable deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes employing diindolophenazine-based fluorophore with narrow-band emission and a shallow LUMO level
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL(2023)
Abstract
The development of narrow emission bandwidth materials is a highly active research area in the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition to B- and N-heterocyclic compounds, known as multiple-resonance (MR) emitters, chromophores based on multi-N-heterocycles can also achieve ultra-narrow-band blue emission. However, the reliability of devices containing the latter has been rarely investigated. In this study, we designed a rigid and electron-rich chromophore diindolo[3,2,1-de:3 & PRIME;,2 & PRIME;,1 & PRIME;-kl]phenazine (DIPz) by fusing two 9Hcarbazole. This resulted in suppressed geometric distortion and vibration coupling during excitation. Furthermore, DIPz was modified with mesityl and 4-(tert-butyl)-N-phenylaniline groups, which finally evolved into a narrow-band blue emitter tDAmDIPz. The tDAmDIPz-based device showed an emission maximum at 458 nm with a narrow full-width at half-maximum of 17 nm, and a high maximum external quantum efficiency of 9.1%. Because the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level of - 1.98 eV for tDAmDIPz was much shallower than - 2.47 eV for the anthracene-based host, electron trapping at emitters could be prevented, resulting in a very long LT95 lifetime of 338 h at a current density of 25 mA/cm2, which was higher than devices based on traditional BN-type MR emitters. This study suggested a general relationship between the operational lifetime and the LUMO energy difference between the emitter and the host, which opens a door to extremely stable blue OLEDs.
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Key words
Organic light-emitting diodes,Shallow LUMO level,Blue emitter,Device lifetime,Narrow-band emission
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