基于磷光发射的有机电致白光器件的研究进展

由于旋轨偶合作用，磷光材料可以同时利用单线态和三线态激子，将其应用于电致白光器件的制作，能够显著提高器件的效率。本文根据磷光电致白光器件结构的不同，综述了国内外在磷光白光电致发光器件领域研究的主要进展。     

以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料

有机电致磷光材料可以同时利用单线态和三线态激子发光,具有发光效率高等优点,成为近年来研究的热点.本文综述了以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料的研究进展、存在问题和研究趋势,并简要介绍了用于制作有机磷光器件的主体材料.     

含铱配合物聚合物磷光材料及其电致发光性能

聚合物电致发光器件由于在大面积平板显示和固态照明上的潜在应用,在学术研究和工业应用领域引起了广泛的关注.聚合物电致发光器件可以通过溶液加工的方法制备,制作工艺简单,成本低、材料省,并且可以实现大面积柔性显示.和荧光聚合物材料相比,磷光铱配合物聚合物材料可以同时利用单线态和三线态激子发光,器件的内量子效率理论上能达到100%,突破了传统25%的极限,因而受到广泛关注.基于此,本文综述了含铱配合物聚合物磷光材料的研究进展,主要对含铱配合物线型聚合物和超分子聚合物的合成、结构特点以及光电特性进行了总结,并讨论了聚合物结构对材料性能的影响.     

基于荧光与磷光复合的有机电致白光器件

白光有机电致发光器件(white organic light emitting diodes,WOLEDs)在显示和照明领域有着极大的应用前景,受到人们的广泛关注.基于荧光和磷光复合发光的WOLEDs结合了荧光器件与磷光器件的优点,提供了实现高效白光器件的新思路.本文按小分子和聚合物器件分类综述了近年来荧光磷光复合发光白光器件的研究进展,对器件结构、荧光磷光之间的能量传递与发光机理等方面进行了讨论,并对此类器件未来的研究方向进行了展望.     

基于给-受体结构的热活化延迟荧光材料

热活化延迟荧光（TADF）材料由于第一单线态（S₁）与三线态激发态（T₁）之间的能级差较小,使得三线态激子能够有效地系间窜越至单线态发光,实现100%的激子利用率,在有机发光二极管（OLED）等领域得到广泛应用,是目前有机电子学研究的热点之一。基于给-受体（D-A）结构构建TADF材料具有分子设计简便、易于制备、性能优异等特点,引起了人们的普遍关注。本文综述了基于D-A结构设计TADF材料的基本原则,依据给受体构筑单元的不同,概括了各类TADF材料的结构和性能特点以及在器件应用等方面的最新研究进展,最后总结了D-A结构型TADF材料尚存在的问题,并对其未来的关键研究方向进行了分析和展望。     

以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料

有机电致磷光材料可以同时利用单线态和三线态激子发光,具有发光效率高等优点,成为近年来研究的热点。本文综述了以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料的研究进展、存在问题和研究趋势,并简要介绍了用于制作有机磷光器件的主体材料。     

以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料

有机电致磷光材料可以同时利用单线态和三线态激子发光，具有发光效率高等优点，成为近年来研究的热点。本文综述了以铱为内核的有机电致磷光材料的研究进展、存在问题和研究趋势，并简要介绍了用于制作有机磷光器件的主体材料。     

利用三线态激子提高有机/高分子发光器件的量子效率

有机/高分子电致发光器件(O/PLED) 的发光效率远低于理论值,除器件结构有待优化之外,大部分三线态激子的能量没有得到利用是主要原因.近年来,利用三线态激子的发光来提高O/PLED的发光效率取得了积极的进展.本文从利用三线态激子的发光机制入手,综述了国内外在高效发光领域磷光材料利用的主要研究进展及发展方向。     

有机电致磷光材料的分子设计：从主体材料到客体材料

有机电致磷光器件的设计和利用，可以突破由三线态激子跃迁自旋禁阻引起的有机电致荧光器件量子效率的限制。本文综述了有机电致磷光器件和材料的研究进展，主要介绍了主体材料和客体材料的研究现状，特别是蓝光磷光器件主客体材料的研究情况。     

新一代有机电致发光材料突破激子统计

激子（或自旋）统计是基本的物理原理,决定有机半导体器件中形成单线态与三线态激子的比例（1：3）．近年来,基于新原理（三线态反系间窜越、延迟荧光）的OLED材料引起广泛关注．该类材料在理论方面重新催热了关于自旋统计的探讨,在应用方面有望发展成为低成本、高性能的新一代OLED材料,在国内相关领域得到重视,多个研究机构已布局开展相关研究．从目前的发展情况看,该类材料的发光机制、原理以及进一步材料设计思路还有待探讨和明确．鉴于此,本文综述了激子统计研究进展,分析了多种提高激子利用效率的途径,提出本课题组提高激子利用率的“热激子过程”新思路及杂化局域．电荷转移（HLCT）态材料设计原理,器件实现接近100％的激子利用效率．     

白光有机发光二极管的研究进展

由于白光有机发光二极管(WOLED)具有效率高、亮度高、功耗低、视角广、响应速度快、主动发光、超薄超轻以及可柔性化等优异性能, 并在显示和照明领域有广阔的应用前景, 受到学者和业界的广泛重视而成为研究热点. 本文首先介绍了实现WOLED的不同方法, 然后从发光材料种类的角度, 阐述了全荧光WOLED、全磷光WOLED、基于荧光/磷光杂化WOLED以及延迟荧光WOLED近年来的研究进展, 并结合我们研究团队最近的工作详细地介绍了不同高性能WOLED的器件结构、设计思想、工作原理、物理机制以及发光过程; 接着, 简单介绍了柔性WOLED最近研究进展; 最后探讨了WOLED目前存在的问题及其未来的发展趋势.     

Achieving White-Light Emission Using Organic Persistent Room Temperature Phosphorescence

Artificial lighting currently consumes approximately one-fifth of global electricity production. Organic emitters with white persistent RTP have potential for applications in energy-efficient lighting technologies, due to their ability to harvest both singlet and triplet excitons. Compared to heavy metal phosphorescent materials, they have significant advantages in cost, processability, and reduced toxicity. Phosphorescence efficiency can be improved by introducing heteroatoms, heavy atoms, or by incorporating luminophores within a rigid matrix. White-light emission can be achieved by tuning the ratio of fluorescence to phosphorescence intensity or by pure phosphorescence with a broad emission spectrum. This review summarizes recent advances in the design of purely organic RTP materials with white-light emission, describing single-component and host-guest systems. White phosphorescent carbon dots and representative applications of white-light RTP materials are also introduced.     

Doping‐Free White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

Doping‐free white organic light‐emitting diodes (WOLEDs) have great potential to the next‐generation solid‐state lighting and displays due to the excellent properties, such as high efficiency, bright luminance, low power consumption, simplified structure and low cost. In this account, our recent developments on doping‐free WOLEDs have been summarized. Firstly, fundamental concepts of doping‐free WOLEDs have been described. Then, the effective strategies to develop doping‐free WOLEDs have been presented. Particularly, the manipulation of charges and excitons distribution in different kinds of doping‐free WOLEDs have been highlighted, including doping‐free fluorescent/phosphorescent hybrid WOLEDs, doping‐free thermally activated delayed fluorescent WOLEDs and doping‐free phosphorescent WOLEDs. In the end, an outlook for the future development of doping‐free WOLEDs have been clarified.     

Progress in next-generation organic electroluminescent materials: material design beyond exciton statistics

Exciton (or spin) statistics is a physical principle based on the statistics of spin multiplicity. In electroluminescence, injected electrons and holes have randomized spin states, and usually form singlet or triplet excitons in the ratio of 1:3. Exciton statistics determines that the upper limit of internal quantum efficiency is 25% in fluorescent devices, since only singlet exciton can decay radiatively. However, both experimental and theoretical evidence indicate that the actual efficiency can exceed the exciton statistics limit of 25% by utilizing materials with special electronic structure and optimized device structures. These results bring light to break through the exciton statistics limit and develop new-generation fluorescent materials with low cost and high efficiency. Recently, the exciton statistics, which has attracted great attention in the past decade, is being rejuvenated due to the discovery of some fluorescent materials with abnormally high efficiencies. In view of their significance in theoretical research of organic semiconductors and developing new-generation OLED materials, such materials are widely investigated in both academic institutions and industry. Several key issues still require further clarification for this kind of materials, such as the molecular design concepts. Herein, we review the progress of the materials with efficiency exceeding the exciton statistics limit, and the routes to improve exciton utilization efficiency. In the end, we present an innovative pathway to fully harvest the excitons in fluorescent devices, namely, “hot exciton” model and relevant fluorescence material with hybridized local and charge-transfer (HLCT) excited state.     

Singlet-triplet and triplet-triplet interactions in conjugated polymer single molecules

Single molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy has been used to investigate the photodynamics of isolated single multichromophoric polymer chains of the conjugated polymers MEH-PPV and F8BT on the microsecond to millisecond time scale. The experimental results (and associated kinetic modeling) demonstrate that (i) triplet exciton pairs undergo efficient triplet-triplet annihilation on the <30 micros time scale, (ii) triplet-triplet annihilation is the dominant mechanism for triplet decay at incident excitation powers > or =50 W/cm(2), and (iii) singlet excitons are quenched by triplet excitons with an efficiency on the order of (1)/(2). The high efficiency of this latter process ensures that single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy can be effectively used to indirectly monitor triplet exciton population dynamics in conjugated polymers. Finally, correlation spectroscopy of MEH-PPV molecules in a multilayer device environment reveals that triplet excitons are efficiently quenched by hole polarons.     

Luminescent techniques in investigation of the biological properties of fullerene-based hybrid nanostructures

It has been shown that amino acid derivatives of C₆₀ fullerene (ADFs) are effective quenchers of phosphorescence of the triplet probes eosin and erythrosine. The rate constants of erythrosine phosphorescence quenching by ADFs in aqueous solutions and model membranes have been determined. Using the triplet probe technique, the ability of ADFs to be transported across the lipid bilayer into the inner space of liposomes have been revealed. By monitoring a change in the fluorescence intensity of a luminescent hybrid structure based on C₆₀-proline and eosin, the distribution of the hybrid structure in animal organs was established. The stability of hybrid structures subjected to various chemical and biological impacts was studied by recording the fluorescence of a Gd@C₈₂-based hybrid structure.     

Triplet fusion delayed fluorescence materials for OLEDs

The development of fluorescent materials capable of harvesting triplet excitons efficiently is of great importance in achieving high-performance low-cost organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Among the three mechanisms converting triplet to singlet excitons, triplet fusion delayed fluorescence (TFDF) plays a key role in the demonstration of highly efficient and reliable OLEDs, especially blue devices, for practice applications. This review focuses on the recent development of TFDF materials and their applications in OLEDs. Fundamental TFDF mechanism, molecular design principles, and the structure-property relationship of TFDF materials with a particular emphasis on their different excited state characters, are presented and discussed. Moreover, the future perspectives and ongoing challenges of TFDF materials are also highlighted.     

高分子热活化延迟荧光材料研究进展

高分子热活化延迟荧光材料能够利用热活化的反向系间窜越过程将三线态激子转变为单线态激子而发出荧光,理论上可以实现100%的内量子效率,突破了传统高分子荧光材料内量子效率不超过25%的极限,因而代表了未来低成本高效率高分子发光材料的发展方向。 近年来,高分子热活化延迟荧光材料在分子设计方面取得了重要进展,形成了主链型、侧链型和树枝状高分子热活化延迟荧光材料等材料体系,同时其器件性能得到了大幅提升,部分材料的器件效率达到了高分子磷光材料的水平。 本文从材料和器件两个方面,围绕高分子热活化延迟荧光材料的分子结构、光物理特性和器件性能,总结和评述了国内外研究者在该领域方向的研究进展,并分析了未来发展面临的机遇和挑战。     

Efficient metal-free organic room temperature phosphors

An innovative transformation of organic luminescent materials in recent years has realised the exciting research area of ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence. Here the credit for the advancements goes to the rational design of new organic phosphors. The continuous effort in the area has yielded wide varieties of metal-free organic systems capable of extending the lifetime to several seconds under ambient conditions with high quantum yield and attractive afterglow properties. The various strategies adopted in the past decade to manipulate the fate of triplet excitons suggest a bright future for this class of materials. To analyze the underlying processes in detail, we have chosen high performing organic triplet emitters that utilized the best possible ways to achieve a lifetime above one second along with impressive quantum yield and afterglow properties. Such a case study describing different classes of metal-free organic phosphors and strategies adopted for the efficient management of triplet excitons will stimulate the development of better candidates for futuristic applications. This Perspective discusses the phosphorescence features of single- and multi-component crystalline assemblies, host–guest assemblies, polymers, and polymer-based systems under various classes of molecules. The various applications of the organic phosphors, along with future perspectives, are also highlighted.

A summary of the extremely efficient organic phosphors that utilized the best possible ways to manipulate the fate of triplet excitons for achieving a long lifetime along with impressive quantum yield and afterglow properties is provided.