Novel molecular triad exhibiting aggregation-induced emission and thermally activated fluorescence for efficient non-doped organic light-emitting diodes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 7;55(64):9475-9478. doi: 10.1039/c9cc05391c.

Abstract

A light-emitting molecular triad (BPCP-2CPC) with dual functionality was successfully synthesized and applied to solution-processed non-doped organic light-emitting diodes. The BPCP-2CPC triad contains 9-phenyl-9H-carbazole units as a host moiety tethered to a green-emitting core (BPCP) through a cyclohexane unit and exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics simultaneously. The BPCP-2CPC-based non-doped TADF-OLED devices showed a high external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 13.4%.