Alkyl-substituted multifunctional bicarbazole derivatives for solution processable organic LED devices
Dovydas Blazevicius a, Gintare Krucaite a, Daiva Tavgeniene a, Saulius Grigalevicius a, Prakalp Gautam b, Shahnawaz Shahnawaz b, Iram Siddiqui b, Jwo-Huei Jou b
a Kaunas Univeristy of Technology, Radvilėnų plentas, 19, Kaunas, Lithuania
b Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2023 Conference (MATSUSFall23)
#NANOFUN - Functional Nanomaterials: from optoelectronics to bio- and quantum applications
Torremolinos, Spain, 2023 October 16th - 20th
Organizers: Milena Arciniegas, Iwan Moreels and Gabriele Raino
Poster, Dovydas Blazevicius, 014
Publication date: 18th July 2023

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) technology has outperformed other technologies in recent decades [1]. OLEDs are the ultimate technology for display and are stepping rapidly into lighting. At present, there is an intensive need for high-performance deep-blue emitters in full-color display and solid-state lighting [2]. However, as the emission peaks shift towards the deep-blue region, the nonradiative transition rate of metal d-orbitals tends to increase, making it difficult to achieve a high efficiency altogether [3]. To solve the problem, small-molecules fluorescent materials have re-gained attention due to their high color purity and low cost [4]. The synthesis of bicarbazole-based host materials was carried out by the three-step synthetic route and objective materials shown in graphic. Herein, we introduce a series of donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) twisted derivatives based on carbazole-benzophenone moieties. We have designed three-step synthesized carbazole-benzophenone-based twisted D-A-D derivatives, namely 6, 7, 8, and 9, as bi-functional materials. These materials possess high decomposition temperatures (>360°C) and glass transition temperature (~125°C), high photoluminescence quantum yield (>60%), wide bandgap (>3.2 eV), and a short decay time (ns). Owing to their properties, the materials were utilized as blue emitters and host materials for deep-blue and green OLEDs, respectively. In terms of the blue OLEDs, the emitter 7-based device has outperformed others by showing a high maximum EQE of 4.0%, close to the theoretical limit of fluorescent materials, for a deep-blue emission (CIEy= 0.09). Whilst the same material also displayed a maximum power efficacy of 45 lm/W as a host material doped with a phosphorescent emitter (Ir(ppy)3). Furthermore, the materials were also utilized as a host with TADF green emitter (4CzIPN). Due to the high quantum yield of 69%, the host 9-based green device has displayed a maximum EQE of almost 11%. Therefore, the bi-functional materials are easily synthesized, economical, possess excellent characteristics and are expected to be useful in a variety of cost-effective and high-performance OLED applications.

We acknowledge support from the Research Council of Lithuania (grant No. S-MIP-22-84).

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