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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 49, Issue 26, Pages 8967-8975Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt01872d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773074]
- Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China (111 program) [B17019]
- CCNU from the Colleges' Basic Research and Operation of MOE
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The control of counter-anion is a facile approach to tune the overall properties of cationic iridium complexes for optoelectronic applications. Here, we report for the first time the use of electron-rich carbazole-type counter-anions in cationic iridium complexes and the use of such complexes as dopants in solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). PF6-, 4-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzenesulfonate (CAZ-SO3-), and 4-(9 ' H-[9,3 ':6 ',9 ''-tercarbazol]-9 '-yl)benzenesulfonate (TCAZ-SO3-) have been employed as the counter-anions of sky-blue-emitting complexesR,1and2, respectively. The carbazole-type counter-anions do not largely disturb the phosphorescence of the cations and the complexes show similar emission properties in solution and films. The close proximity of the carbazole-type anions to the phosphorescent cations allows efficient energy-transfer from the former to the latter in films. When used as dopants in solution-processed OLEDs, complexes1and2show higher performances than complexRbecause the hole-trapping effects of the carbazole-type counter-anions largely improve the carrier-recombination balance in the emissive layers. In particular, the double-layer sky-blue device based on complex2with strong hole-trapping by TCAZ-SO(3)(-)affords a high peak current efficiency of 27.1 cd A(-1). The work reveals that electron-rich carbazole-type anions are promising counter-anions for cationic iridium complexes toward optoelectronic applications.
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