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Macrocyclic Engineering of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters for High-Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

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ADVANCED MATERIALS
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202301929

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delayed fluorescence; macrocycles; modular synthesis; organic light-emitting diodes; thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)

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In this study, a series of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) macrocycles are synthesized using a modularly tunable strategy by introducing xanthones as acceptors and phenylamine derivatives as donors. Detailed analysis of their photophysical properties reveals their characteristics of high performance. The corresponding devices exhibit record-high external quantum efficiencies of 31.6% and 26.9%, respectively, in the field of TADF macrocycles, owing to the high photoluminescence quantum yields and excellent dipole orientation of the macrocycles.
Several thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have been studied and developed to realize high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, TADF macrocycles have not been sufficiently investigated owing to the synthetic challenges, resulting in limited exploration of their luminescent properties and the corresponding highly efficient OLEDs. In this study, a series of TADF macrocycles is synthesized using a modularly tunable strategy by introducing xanthones as acceptors and phenylamine derivatives as donors. A detailed analysis of their photophysical properties combined with fragment molecules reveals characteristics of high-performance macrocycles. The results indicate that: a) the ideal structure decreases the energy loss, which in turn reduces the non-radiative transitions; b) reasonable building blocks increase the oscillator strength providing a higher radiation transition rate; c) the horizontal dipole orientation (& UTheta;) of the extended macrocyclic emitters is increased. Owing to the high photoluminescence quantum yields of & AP;100% and 92% and excellent & UTheta; of 80 and 79% for macrocycles MC-X and MC-XT in 5 wt% doped films, the corresponding devices exhibit record-high external quantum efficiencies of 31.6% and 26.9%, respectively, in the field of TADF macrocycles.

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