Efficiency enhancement of organic light-emitting diodes incorporating a highly oriented thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter

Christian Mayr, Sae Youn Lee, Tobias D. Schmidt, Takuma Yasuda, Chihaya Adachi, Wolfgang Brütting

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Abstract

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) with the blue emitter CC2TA showing thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is presented exhibiting an external quantum efficiency (ηEQE) of 11% ± 1%, which clearly exceeds the classical limit for fluorescent OLEDs. The analysis of the emission layer by angular dependent photoluminescence (PL) measurements shows a very high degree of 92% horizontally oriented transition dipole moments. Excited states lifetime measurements of the prompt fluorescent component under PL excitation yield a radiative quantum efficiency of 55% of the emitting species. Thus, the radiative exciton fraction has to be significantly higher than 25% due to TADF. Performing a simulation based efficiency analysis for the OLED under investigation allows for a quantification of individual contributions to the efficiency increase originating from horizontal emitter orientation and TADF. Remarkably, the strong horizontal emitter orientation leads to a light-outcoupling efficiency of more than 30%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5232-5239
Number of pages8
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume24
Issue number33
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2014

Keywords

  • emitter orientation
  • optical simulation
  • organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
  • radiative exciton fraction
  • thermally activated delayed fluorescence

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