High-efficiency white organic light-emitting diodes based on a blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter combined with green and red fluorescent emitters

Adv Mater. 2015 Mar 25;27(12):2019-23. doi: 10.1002/adma.201404967. Epub 2015 Feb 9.

Abstract

A new device architecture for highly efficient white organic light-emitting diodes is proposed, using a molecule exhibiting blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence as a common source of singlet excitons for molecules emitting red and green light based on conventional fluorescence. The device, with an optimum combination of materials, shows a maximum external quantum efficiency of over 12% without using phosphorescent emitters.

Keywords: energy transfer; fluorescent dyes; organic light-emitting diodes; thermally activated delayed fluorescence; triplet harvesting.