Adv. Mater. 2017, 1700553
He Yang, Qianqian Liang, Chunmiao Han, Jing Zhang, and Hui Xu* A Phosphanthrene Oxide Host with Close Sphere Packing for Ultralow-Voltage-Driven Efficient Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Diodes. (Adv. Mater. 2017, 1700553.)
A phosphanthrene oxide host, 5,10-diphenyl-phosphanthrene 5,10-dioxide (DPDPO2A), with intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds achieves spheroidal cis-configuration and close sphere packing. DPDPO2A realizes effective exciton suppression and excellent and balanced carrier transporting ability, both at the same time, demonstrating favorable photoluminescence quantum yield of 84% from its blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) dye, namely bis[4-(9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine) phenyl]sulfone, doped films and high electron and hole mobility at the level of 10 −4 and 10 −5 cm 2 V −1 s −1, respectively. DPDPO2A endows its blue TADF devices with record-low driving voltages, e.g., turn-on voltage of 2.5 V, and the state-of-the-art efficiencies with maxima of 22.5% for external quantum efficiency and 52.9 lm W−1 for power efficiency, which is the best comprehensive performance to date of ultralow-voltage-driven blue TADF diodes. With hereby proved ultralow operation voltage and energy consumption at display luminance, the commercial application of TADF technology in portable digital terminals will become reality in the near future. This work manifests the significance and complexity of TADF host engineering, which is already advanced from molecular level to aggregation state.
