Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Commercially Available Materials for Solution-Process Exciplex OLEDs

Zong-Liang Tseng; Wei-Lun Huang; Tzu-Hung Yeh; You-Xun Xu; Chih-Hsun Chiang

doi:10.3390/polym13101668

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Commercially Available Materials for Solution-Process Exciplex OLEDs

Polymers (Basel). 2021 May 20;13(10):1668. doi: 10.3390/polym13101668.

Authors

Zong-Liang Tseng^{1

2}, Wei-Lun Huang^{1

2}, Tzu-Hung Yeh², You-Xun Xu^{1

2}, Chih-Hsun Chiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electronic Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City 243303, Taiwan.
² Organic Electronics Research Center, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City 243303, Taiwan.

Abstract

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have developed rapidly in recent years. Thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) molecules open a path to increase exciton collection efficiency from 25% to 100%, and the solution process provides an alternative technology to achieve lower cost OLEDs more easily. To develop commercial materials as exciplex hosts for high-performance and solution-processed OLEDs, we attempted to use 4,4'-cyclohexylidenebis[N,N-bis(4-methylphenyl)benzenamine (TAPC), poly(9-vinylcarbazole) (PVK), N,N'-Di(1-naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenyl-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine (NPB), and poly(N,N'-bis-4-butylphenyl-N,N'-bisphenyl)benzidine (Poly-TPD) as the donors and 2,4,6-tris[3-(diphenylphosphinyl)phenyl]-1,3,5-triazine (POT2T) as the acceptor to obtain the TADF effect. All donors and the acceptor were purchased from chemical suppliers. Our work shows that excellent TADF properties and high-efficiency exciplex OLEDs with low turn-on voltage and high luminance can be achieved with a simple combination of commercial materials.

Keywords: OLED; RISC; TADF; exciplex; light-emitting diode.