Understanding emission mechanism and device engineering for efficient organic radical light-emitting diodes
Hwan-Hee Cho a, Neil C. Greenham a, Richard H. Friend a, Emrys W. Evans b
a Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK
b Swansea University, Department of Chemistry, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK, Swansea, United Kingdom
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#OrgFun22. Behind the Device: Fundamental Processes in Organic Electronics
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizers: Jose Manuel Marin Beloqui, Claudia Tait and Emrys Evans
Contributed talk, Hwan-Hee Cho, presentation 308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.308
Publication date: 7th February 2022

Organic radicals have emerged as the basis of more efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with higher performance limits than typical molecular emitters. This is achieved by doublet fluorescence with nanosecond emission in contrast to standard singlet-triplet photophysics found in organic optoelectronics. Here direct charge recombination at radical sites is considered the primary emission process. However, due to the low-energy radical orbitals, severe electron trapping occurs in devices with narrow emission zones at the interface of emitting layers and electron transport layers, causing significant efficiency roll-off, low radiance and poor stability. To improve the optoelectronic performance of organic radical electroluminescence (EL) devices, the device structure is optimised by tuning charge transport layers and utilising an ambipolar host. The concept is tested by transient EL measurements and single-carrier device analysis that show the limiting emission process. We demonstrate highly efficient organic radical light-emitting diodes using tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl (TTM)-based radicals with higher than 15% EQE at 700 nm, including substantially improved efficiency roll-off and maximum radiance over 100,000 mW sr-1 m-2 in an important step to practical organic radical light-emitting diodes.

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