Nature Communications (Apr 2024)

Bright, efficient, and stable pure-green hyperfluorescent organic light-emitting diodes by judicious molecular design

  • Yi-Ting Lee,
  • Chin-Yiu Chan,
  • Nanami Matsuno,
  • Shigetada Uemura,
  • Susumu Oda,
  • Masakazu Kondo,
  • Rangani Wathsala Weerasinghe,
  • Yanmei Hu,
  • Gerardus N. Iswara Lestanto,
  • Youichi Tsuchiya,
  • Yufang Li,
  • Takuji Hatakeyama,
  • Chihaya Adachi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47482-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Abstract To fulfill ultra-high-definition display, efficient and bright green organic light-emitting diodes with Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage y-coordinate ≥ 0.7 are required. Although there are some preceding reports of highly efficient devices based on pure-green multi-resonance emitters, the efficiency rolloff and device stabilities for those pure-green devices are still unsatisfactory. Herein, we report the rational design of two pure-green multi-resonance emitters for achieving highly stable and efficient pure-green devices with CIEx,ys that are close to the NTSC and BT. 2020 standards. In this study, our thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLEDs based on two pure-green multi-resonance emitters result in CIEy up to 0.74. In hyperfluorescent device architecture, the CIExs further meet the x-coordinate requirements, i.e., NTSC (0.21) and BT. 2020 (0.17), while keeping their CIEys ~ 0.7. Most importantly, hyperfluorescent devices display the high maximum external quantum efficiencies of over 25% and maximum luminance of over 105 cd m−2 with suppressed rolloffs (external quantum efficiency of ~20% at 104 cd m−2) and long device stabilities with LT95s of ~ 600 h.