Light-emitting electrochemical cells and solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes using small molecule organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters

EZ-C thanks the University of St Andrews for support. The authors are grateful to the EPSRC for financial support (grants EP/J01771X and EP/J00916). IDWS is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder. Two novel charged organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters, 1 and 2, have been synthesized. Their TADF behavior is well-supported by the multiexponential decay of their emission (nanosecond and microsecond components) and the oxygen dependence of the photoluminescence quantum yields. Spin-coated electroluminescent devices have been fabricated to make light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEECs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The first example of a n…

Deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEECs)

The authors acknowledge the University of St Andrews for financial support. The authors also acknowledge financial support from the European Union H2020 project INFORM (grant 675867), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) via the Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu MDM-2015-0538, MAT2014-55200 and the Generalitat Valenciana (Prometeo/2016/135). MLP acknowledges support from a Grisolia grant (GRISOLIA/2015/A/146). Two deep blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters ( imCzDPS and imDPADPS ) that contain charged imidazolium groups tethered to the central luminophore were designed and synthesized as small molecule organic emitters for light-emitting e…

Efficient light-emitting electrochemical cells using small molecular weight, ionic, host-guest systems

This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MAT2014-55200). Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) based on fluorescent host-guest small molecules system are reported. The LECs show electroluminescence coming solely from the guest, with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 2.0%, which is very close to the theoretical maximum EQE (2.2%) for this particular system. This work demonstrates the possibility to obtain high efficiency devices employing low-cost materials, making host-guest systems a real alternative to more traditional semiconducting polymer or transition metal compounds. Postprint Peer reviewed

Deep-Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) Emitters for Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells (LEECs) (dataset)