Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 7435-7441Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b16579
Keywords
quantum-dot light-emitting diodes; thermally activated delayed fluorescence; exciton harvester; Forster resonance energy transfer; solution-processed
Funding
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2015B010132009, 2013CB040402009]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61574064, 61377065]
- Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City [2014J4100056]
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Utilization of triplet excitons plays a key role in obtaining highly efficient quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs). However, to date, only phosphorescent materials have been implemented to harvest triplet excitons in QD-LEDs. In this work, we introduced a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter, 4,5-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)phthalonitrile (2CzPN), doped into poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) as an exciton harvester in red QD-LEDs by solution processing. As a result, electrons leaking to the PVK layer will be trapped by 2CzPN to form long-lifetime TADF excitons in the 2CzPN:PVK layer, and then this harvested exciton energy can be effectively transferred to the adjacent QDs by the Forster resonance energy-transfer process. The fabricated red CdSe/CdS core/shell QD-LEDs show a maximum luminescence efficiency of 17.33 cd/A and longer lifetime. Our results demonstrate that the TADF sensitizer would be a promising candidate to develop highly efficient QD-LEDs.
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