Enhancing the Efficiency and Stability of Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters by Perdeuteration
Nature photonics(2024)
Abstract
Highly efficient and stable blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), although required for display and lighting applications, remain rare. Here we report a molecular perdeuteration strategy to stabilize blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. Perdeuterated sky-blue TADF emitters exhibit higher efficiencies and doubled device lifetime in OLEDs compared with protonated emitters, owing to suppressed high-energy vibrations. Perdeuteration also leads to blue-shifted and narrowed spectra in the solid state, which in turn improves the Förster energy transfer to the deep-blue final emitter in TADF-sensitized fluorescent OLEDs. These devices exhibit a maximum external quantum efficiency of 33.1% and a lifetime to reach 80% of the initial luminance of 1,365 h with a Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage y coordinate of 0.20 at a luminance of 1,000 cd m −2 , even outperforming blue phosphorescent OLEDs. Our perdeuteration strategy improves the device performance of blue OLEDs, paving the way for their broader applications in displays and lightings.
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