A Boron, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Doped π‐Extended Helical Pure Blue Multiresonant Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitter for Organic Light Emitting Diodes That Shows Fast kRISC Without the Use of Heavy Atoms

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Abstract
Narrowband emissive multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR‐TADF) emitters are a promising solution to achieve the current industry‐targeted color standard, Rec. BT.2020‐2, for blue color without using optical filters, aiming for high‐efficiency organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, their long triplet lifetimes, largely affected by their slow reverse intersystem crossing rates, adversely affect device stability. In this study, a helical MR‐TADF emitter (f‐DOABNA) is designed and synthesized. Owing to its π‐delocalized structure, f‐DOABNA possesses a small singlet‐triplet gap, ΔEST, and displays simultaneously an exceptionally faster reverse intersystem crossing rate constant, kRISC, of up to 2 × 106 s−1 and a very high photoluminescence quantum yield, ΦPL, of over 90% in both solution and doped films. The OLED with f‐DOABNA as the emitter achieved a narrow deep‐blue emission at 445 nm (full width at half‐maximum of 24 nm) associated with Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.150, 0.041), and showed a high maximum external quantum efficiency, EQEmax, of ≈20%.
Funding Information
  • Gouvernement Wallon (n1117545)
  • Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (838885)
  • City University of Hong Kong (9231531, 9610637)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/W007517/1, EP/R035164/1)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science London (JPJSCCA20180005)

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