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Published on: November 15, 2016
A chiral co-assembled exciplex host achieved extremely outstanding narrowband circularly polarized
Chao Liu1, Jun Zeng1, Zhenhao Jiang1
1State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Photoresist Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University 163 Xianlin Avenue Nanjing 210023 P.R. China zhangjs@nju.edu.cn yxcheng@nju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
High-performance circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) that can simultaneously achieve narrowband emission and high electroluminescence asymmetry factor (g EL) values remain a formidable challenge. In this study, a simple strategy utilizing a co-assembled chiral exciplex as a host material was employed to fabricate high-performance CP-OLEDs. The exciplex was constructed from chiral acceptor enantiomers (R/S-TRZ) and an achiral liquid-crystalline donor (CzTPA). Upon thermal annealing, the resulting co-assembled films exhibited circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with a luminescence asymmetry factor (g lum) up to 0.58. Introducing the achiral green multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) emitter to the exciplex host enabled high-performance circularly polarized electroluminescence (CP-EL). The resulting device exhibited a large g EL value of 0.28, a narrow full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 33 nm, and negligible efficiency roll-off. This work describes the first case of narrowband CP-OLEDs based on chiral co-assembled exciplex host materials, representing one of the highest g EL values of reported narrowband emission CP-OLEDs to date. It further establishes a general strategy for fabricating high-performance CP-OLEDs with readily available achiral emitters, thereby significantly broadening applications in chiral optoelectronics.

