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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18292-0
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan
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Large external quantum efficiency rolloff at high current densities in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is frequently caused by the quenching of radiative singlet excitons by long-lived triplet excitons [singlet-triplet annihilation (STA)]. In this study, we adopted a triplet scavenging strategy to overcome the aforementioned STA issue. To construct a model system for the triplet scavenging, we selected 2,6-dicyano-1,1-diphenyl-lambda (5)sigma (4)-phosphinine (DCNP) as the emitter and 4,4-bis[(N-carbazole)styryl]biphenyl (BSBCz) as the host material by considering their singlet and triplet energy levels. In this system, the DCNP's triplets are effectively scavenged by BSBCz while the DCNP's singlets are intact, resulting in the suppressed STA under electrical excitation. Therefore, OLEDs with a 1wt.%-DCNP-doped BSBCz emitting layer demonstrated the greatly suppressed efficiency rolloff even at higher current densities. This finding favourably provides the advanced light-emitting performance for OLEDs and organic semiconductor laser diodes from the aspect of the suppressed efficiency rolloff. Though organic light-emitting diodes are highly desirable for display and lighting applications, efficiency roll-off at high current densities limits its applicability. Here, the authors report a triplet scavenging strategy for improved triplet exciton management and reduced efficiency roll-off.
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