蓝色有机电致发光材料及器件的研究进展

有机电致发光器件因在全彩平板显示和固态照明领域中具有广阔的应用前景, 而受到人们的广泛关注。 时至今日, 与现有的红色和绿色有机电致发光材料和器件相比, 具有优越综合性能的蓝色有机电致发光材料和器件却始终匮乏。 相对而言, 蓝光材料具有较宽的能隙, 因而很难获得低电压、高效率和良好稳定性的深蓝光器件。 通常, 白色有机电致发光器件可以通过混合三基色或者两种颜色的方法获得。 但是无论哪种方法, 蓝光材料均是必不可少的。 另外, 还可以通过能量传递将蓝光转化为红光和绿光。 因此, 研发出具有优越综合性能的蓝光材料对有机电致发光器件的推广及应用十分关键。 本文综述了近年来蓝色荧光材料、蓝色磷光材料的研究进展以及蓝光材料在蓝色和白色有机电致发光器件中的应用, 并结合现有工作, 对蓝色有机电致发光材料的研究和应用前景进行展望。     

稠杂环化合物在红色磷光铱配合物中的应用

在过去的几十年里, 有机发光二极管(OLED)由于潜在的优势, 在全彩显示领域引起了高度重视. 电致磷光材料因其优异的发光性能, 引起了人们广泛关注. 对于实际应用的平板显示器, 蓝、绿、红三基色是必不可少的. 相对于高效的绿光材料, 红光磷光材料仍然存在色纯度差、效率低和亮度不足等问题, 因此设计合适的红光材料成为具有挑战性的问题. 稠杂环化合物因发光量子效率高、发光颜色可调、平衡电荷注入及迁移等优越性能而广泛应用于红色磷光铱配合物. 本文综述了近几年稠杂环化合物在小分子、树枝状及高分子红色磷光铱配合物中的应用, 阐述了铱配合物分子结构对材料光电性质及器件性能的影响, 最后展望了稠杂环化合物在红光磷光材料中的应用前景.     

小分子蓝色磷光主体材料

有机电致发光器件是有机光电子领域的研究热点,在平板显示和固体照明领域有着广阔的应用前景.目前,由于器件效率和稳定性的问题,蓝色磷光器件是有机电致发光器件的瓶颈,而蓝色磷光主体材料的选择是影响蓝色磷光器件性能的关键因素.综述了小分子蓝色磷光主体材料的最新研究进展,重点介绍了各类小分子蓝色磷光主体材料的设计思想、器件性能.包括空穴传输性主体材料、含硅主体材料、电子传输性主体材料、双极主体材料和可湿法加工的蓝色磷光小分子主体材料的结构、特点及相应器件性能.最后对小分子蓝色磷光主体材料的发展方向进行了展望.     

分子型有机空穴传输材料和红色发光材料的设计合成、物化性质及在有机电致发光器件中的应用

有机电致发光器件具有直流电压驱动、主动发光、体积小、无视角限制、响应快,以及色彩全、制作工艺简单等优点,作为新型显示技术而倍受瞩目.在构建有机电致发光器件的三大材料中(空穴传输材料、电子传输材料和发光材料),空穴传输材料的玻璃化温度(Tg)以及红色发光材料的色纯度和发光效率亟待改进.本论文通过对分子进行合适的裁剪与修饰,设计合成了具有良好应用前景的空穴传输材料和红色发光材料,研究了化合物的物化性质与分子结构的关系以及它们在器件上的应用.     

基于芴的蓝色电致发光材料研究进展

新型有机及高分子光电材料的制备与器件设计是目前国际上一个十分活跃的领域。与液晶平面显示器相比,有机和高分子电致发光平面显示器（OLED和PLED）具有主动发光、无角度依赖性、对比度好、轻、薄、能耗低等显著特点,具有广阔的应用前景。红、绿、蓝3原色是实现有效全色显示的必备条件。与红光和绿光材料相比,蓝光材料的效率、稳定性和色纯度都与前两者相去甚远。开发好的蓝光材料不仅可以作为OLED或PLED中的发光层,还可作为主体来掺杂制备绿光和白光光源。在蓝光材料中,基于芴的齐聚物和高分子拥有良好的热稳定性、高荧光量子效率和优异的电致发光特性,但其存在电荷注入与传输困难、易发生聚集、C9位易被氧化等缺点,这些缺点正是导致器件效率低、色纯度低、光谱稳定性差的原因。综述了基于芴的蓝光小分子和高分子的研究进展,主要针对含有电子给体、受体的齐聚芴和聚芴的材料设计、合成及电致发光性能,结果表明,既含空穴传输又含电子传输片段的材料比相应的只含电子给体或受体的材料性能更佳。     

基于磷光材料的电致发光二极管研究进展

电致发光二极管(LEDs)具有能耗低、寿命长、绿色环保等优点,在固态照明、全色显示等领域具有广阔的应用前景。与传统的荧光电致LEDs相比,磷光电致LEDs能够同时利用单重态和三重态激子,理论上可以使器件的内量子效率达到100%,突破5%的外量子效率极限。因此,发展高效的磷光材料以及实现其在电致LEDs中的应用是非常有意义的。本文综述了目前主要的磷光材料,包括有机金属配合物、纯有机分子、聚合物、金属有机框架材料和碳量子点等,并总结了稀有金属配合物和纯有机分子在电致磷光LEDs中的研究进展,同时对电致磷光LEDs的发展前景进行展望。     

聚合物掺杂的高亮度磷光有机电致发光器件

采用新型贵金属铱的配合物(pbi)2Ir(acac)作为客体磷光发光材料, 分别以4%和5%(w)的浓度掺杂于聚合物主体材料poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK)中, 利用旋涂工艺制备了结构为indium-tin oxide (ITO)/PVK:(pbi)2Ir(acac)/2,9-二甲基-4,7-二苯基-1,10-菲咯啉(BCP)/Mg:Ag的有机电致发光器件, 对磷光材料(pbi)2Ir(acac)的紫外-可见吸收光谱﹑光致发光光谱以及聚合物掺杂的磷光器件的电致发光特性进行了研究. 结果表明, 两种掺杂浓度的器件均具有8 V左右的启亮电压, 器件在启亮后的最大流明效率分别为1.53和1.31 lm·W-1, 最大亮度分别为11210和9174 cd·m-2; 同时, 器件的电致发光光谱与色坐标均不随偏置电压和客体掺杂浓度的变化而改变, 具有稳定的色纯度. 分析了主体材料PVK到磷光客体(pbi)2Ir(acac)的能量转移机制, 并探讨了随着器件电流密度和客体掺杂浓度的逐渐增加, 器件流明效率的变化趋势.     

小分子配合物电致发光材料研究进展

本文简述了有机电致发光及有机发光二极管的基本原理 ;概述了小分子配合物电致发光材料的最新研究进展 ,讨论了它们的光电性质、器件的发光效率和稳定性 ;展望了小分子配合物电致发光材料的前景     

菲咯啉铜（Ⅰ）配合物的红光有机电致磷光器件

菲咯啉铜（Ⅰ）配合物的红光有机电致磷光器件;有机电致发光;磷光;铜（Ⅰ）配合物;红光     

蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料

有机电致发光(OLEDs)因其具有驱动电压低、主动发光、亮度高、视角宽、响应快、耐冲击与震动等特点,在平板显示与照明领域有着广阔的应用前景。磷光有机电致发光二极管(PhOLEDs)由于能够同时利用三重态和单重态激子,内量子效率从理论上可达到100%,从而克服了传统荧光OLEDs只利用单重态激子时效率25%的限制,在过去的几十年里受到业内人士的极大关注。但要实现三重态磷光,通常需要将重金属原子与主体材料进行掺杂,而重金属配合物的磷光寿命相对较长,容易引起浓度猝灭和三重态-三重态湮灭,所以需要找到合适的主体材料与重金属的磷光发射体进行掺杂来减少上述因素的影响从而得到高性能的电致磷光器件。本文综述了近年来国内外蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料的研究状况,并对空穴传输型、电子传输型和双极传输型的蓝色磷光主体材料按照官能团的不同进行了分类总结和评述,并对其光物理性质、热学性质、电化学性质及器件性能等作了详细归纳比较,最后展望了蓝色有机电致磷光主体材料的前景和发展趋势。     

Design of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Assistant Dopants to Suppress the Nonradiative Component in Red Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Organic light-emitting diodes are currently under research to achieve high efficiency and long life by using thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials. In particular, many studies have focused on ensuring high efficiency in fluorescent devices by introducing TADF materials. Herein, four kinds of orange-colored TADF materials were synthesized and introduced into 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylbisbenz[5,6]indeno[1,2,3-cd:1′,2′,3′-lm]perylene (DBP) red fluorescent devices as assistant dopants. These TADF materials assisted in achieving high efficiency in DBP devices by reducing nonradiative process by Dexter energy transfer and harvesting singlet excitons by a Förster resonance energy transfer process. Among the four TADF materials, 2-(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)-6-(9,9-diphenylacridin-10(9H)-yl)-1H-benzo[de]isoquinoline-1,3(2H)-dione (DtBIQAP) showed a higher reverse intersystem crossing rate and a smaller nonradiative rate constant than the other two materials, which can reduce the exciton loss process. As a result, the DtBIQAP-assisted DBP device showed a high maximum external quantum efficiency of 18.2 % and color coordinates of (0.63, 0.37) in red fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes. This study provided a strategy of developing assistant dopants for high external quantum efficiency in TADF-assisted fluorescent devices.     

Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Novel Red Light-Emitting Cyclometalated Iridium(Ⅲ) Complexes

Considerable research is currently focused on the organic electrophosphorescent materials due to their high luminescent efficiency. Electrophosphorescent material based on heavy metal complexes is a hot topic in the research of organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). We synthesized a series of novel cyclometalated heavy metal complexes by introducing pheny-quinoline moieties into ligands by means of a convenient method (Scheme 1), and investigated their photophysical properties which indicated that those compounds exhibited red light-emitting and high luminescent efficiency.These complexes have been characterized by 1H NMR, UV-vis and PL.     

2,3-Disubstituted Fluorene Scaffold for Efficient Green Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Fluorene is a classic three-membered polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and it has been widely used in optoelectronic devices. Here we explore a simple and efficient strategy for the derivatization at the 2- and 3- positions in fluorene unit. By introducing different types of substituents, we design two pairs of 2,3-disubstituted fluorene isomers and use them as host materials for phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs). The green PHOLEDs hosted by these fluorene derivatives realize high external quantum efficiencies (EQE) over 20 % with low efficiency roll-off. Particularly, the devices hosted by 2TRz3TPA and 2TPA3TRz achieve nearly 24 % EQE and 104 lm W⁻¹ power efficiency. These results clearly demonstrate that the 2,3-disubstituted fluorene platforms are potentially useful for constructing host materials.     

Absorption spectra of blue-light-emitting oligoquinolines from time-dependent density functional theory

Recently, it has been discovered that a series of four conjugated oligomers, oligoquinolines, exhibits many desirable properties of organic materials for developing high-performance light-emitting diodes: good blue color purity, high brightness, high efficiency, and high glass-transition temperatures. In this work, we investigate the optical absorption of oligoquinolines in the gas phase and chloroform (CHCl3) solution, respectively, using time-dependent density functional theory with the adiabatic approximation for the dynamical exchange-correlation potential. Our calculations show that the first peak of optical absorption corresponds to the lowest singlet excited state, whereas several quasi-degenerate excited states contribute to the experimentally observed higher-frequency peak. We find that, compared with the gas phase, there is a moderate red shift in excitation energy in solution due to the solute-solvent interaction simulated using the polarizable continuum model. Our results show that the lowest singlet excitation energies of oligoquinolines in chloroform solution calculated with the adiabatic hybrid functional PBE0 are in a good agreement with experiments. Our simulated optical absorption agrees well with the experimental data. Finally, analysis of the natural transition orbitals corresponding to the excited states in question underscores the underlying electronic delocalization properties.     

High-efficiency tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3) complexes for organic white-light-emitting diodes and solid-state lighting

Combinations of electron-withdrawing and -donating substituents on the 8-hydroxyquinoline ligand of the tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq(3)) complexes allow for control of the HOMO and LUMO energies and the HOMO-LUMO gap responsible for emission from the complexes. Here, we present a systematic study on tuning the emission and electroluminescence (EL) from Alq(3) complexes from the green to blue region. In this study, we explored the combination of electron-donating substituents on C4 and C6. Compounds 1-6 displayed the emission tuning between 478 and 526 nm, and fluorescence quantum yield between 0.15 and 0.57. The compounds 2-6 were used as emitters and hosts in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The highest OLED external quantum efficiency (EQE) observed was 4.6%, which is among the highest observed for Alq(3) complexes. Also, the compounds 3-5 were used as hosts for red phosphorescent dopants to obtain white light-emitting diodes (WOLED). The WOLEDs displayed high efficiency (EQE up to 19%) and high white color purity (color rendering index (CRI≈85).     

Molecular Engineering Approaches Towards All-Organic White Light Emitting Materials

White light emitting (WLE) materials are of increasing interest owing to their promising applications in artificial lighting, display devices, molecular sensors, and switches. In this context, organic WLE materials cater to the interest of the scientific community owing to their promising features like color purity, long-term stability, solution processability, cost-effectiveness, and low toxicity. The typical method for the generation of white light is to combine three primary (red, green, and blue) or the two complementary (e.g., yellow and blue or red and cyan) emissive units covering the whole visible spectral window (400–800 nm). The judicious choice of molecular building blocks and connecting them through either strong covalent bonds or assembling through weak noncovalent interactions are the key to achieve enhanced emission spanning the entire visible region. In the present review article, molecular engineering approaches for the development of all-organic WLE materials are analyzed in view of different photophysical processes like fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT), charge transfer (CT), monomer-excimer emission, triplet-state harvesting, etc. The key aspect of tuning the molecular fluorescence under the influence of pH, heat, and host–guest interactions is also discussed. The white light emission obtained from small organic molecules to supramolecular assemblies is presented, including polymers, micelles, and also employing covalent organic frameworks. The state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of organic WLE materials, challenges, and future scope are delineated.     

Solution-processed multi-resonance organic light-emitting diodes with high efficiency and narrowband emission

With excellent color purity(full-width half maximum(FWHM) 40 nm) and high quantum yield,multiresonance(MR) molecules can harvest both singlet and triplet excitons for highly efficient narrowband organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs) owing to their thermally activated delayed fluorescence(TADF)nature.However,the highly rigid molecular skeleton with the oppositely positioned bo ron and nitrogen in generating MR effects results in the intrinsic difficulties in the solution-processing of MR-OLEDs.Here,we demonstrate a facile strategy to increase the solubility,enhance the efficiencies and modulate emission color of MR-TADF molecules by extending aromatic rings and introducing tert-butyls into the MR backbone.Two MR-TADF emitters with smaller singlet-triplet splitting energies(ΔE~(ST))and larger oscillator strengths were prepared conveniently,and the solution-processed MR-OLEDs were fabricated for the first time,exhibiting efficient bluish-green electroluminescence with narrow FWHM of 32 nm and external quantum efficiency of 16.3%,which are even comparable to the state-of-the-art performances of the vacuum-evaporated devices.These results prove the feasibility of designing efficient solutionprocessible MR molecules,offering important clues in developing high-performance solution-processed MR-OLEDs with high efficiency and color purity.     

Solution-Processable Pure-Red Multiple Resonance-induced Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter for Organic Light-Emitting Diode with External Quantum Efficiency over 20 %

Developing solution-processable red organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with high color purity and efficiency based on multiple resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) is a formidable challenge. Herein, by introducing auxiliary electron donor and acceptor moieties into the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) distributed positions of multiple resonance skeleton simultaneously, an effective strategy to obtain red MR-TADF emitters was represented. The proof-of-the-concept molecule BN-R exhibits a narrowband pure-red emission at 624 nm, with a high luminous efficiency of 94 % and a narrow bandwidth of 46 nm. Notably, the fabricated solution-processable pure-red OLED based on BN-R exhibits a state-of-the-art external quantum efficiency over 20 % with the Commission Internationale de I’Éclairage coordinates of (0.663, 0.337) and a long operational lifetime (LT₅₀) of 1088 hours at an initial luminance of 1000 cd m⁻².