Narrowband Fluorescent Emitters Based on BN-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Efficient and Stable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Abstract

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using conventional fluorescent emitters are currently attracting considerable interests due to outstanding stability and abundant raw materials. To construct high-performance narrowband fluorophores to satisfy requirements of ultra-high-definition displays, a strategy fusing multi-resonance BN-doped moieties to naphthalene is proposed to construct two novel narrowband fluorophores. Green Na−sBN and red Na−dBN, manifest narrow full-width at half-maxima of 31 nm, near-unity photoluminescence quantum yields and molecular horizontal dipole ratios above 90 %. Their OLEDs exhibit the state-of-the-art performances including high external quantum efficiencies (EQE), ultra-low efficiency roll-off and long operational lifetimes. The Na−sBN-based device achieves EQE as high as 28.8 % and remains 19.8 % even at luminance of 100,000 cd m−2, and Na−dBN-based device acquires a record-high EQE of 25.2 % among all red OLEDs using pure fluorescent emitters.