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A Rigid Tetradentate Pt(II) Complex for Ultrastable Green OLED with Microcavity-Enhanced Color Purity
Feng Zhan1, Kewei Xu1, Pan Tong1
1Center for Phosphorescent Material Research, State Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Synthesis and Conversion, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310014, P. R. China.
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Achieving simultaneously high color purity and long operational lifetime in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) remains a major challenge for next-generation displays. Herein, we report a rigid tetradentate Pt(II) complex, Pt-ONP, rationally designed by extending π-conjugation and increasing steric hindrance. Benefiting from constructive Fabry-Pérot interference, the top-emitting OLED (TE-OLED) based on Pt-ONP exhibits pure green emission with a peak at 526 nm, a small full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 28.6 nm, and Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.246, 0.713). The TE-OLED also shows high current efficiency (120.0 cd/A) and, notably, unprecedented operational stability. Accelerated lifetime modeling gives an estimated LT90 of over 225,000 h at 1000 cd/m2─the longest lifetime reported for pure-green OLED (CIEy ≥0.70) to date, exceeding previous records by approximately 18-fold. These results highlight the synergistic impact of molecular rigidification and microcavity engineering, establishing Pt-ONP as a promising emitter for next-generation displays.

