cis-Quinacridone-Based Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Seemingly Old but Renewed Functional Luminogens

Hyukgi Min; In Seob Park; Takuma Yasuda

doi:10.1002/anie.202016914

cis-Quinacridone-Based Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Seemingly Old but Renewed Functional Luminogens

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2021 Mar 29;60(14):7643-7648. doi: 10.1002/anie.202016914. Epub 2021 Feb 24.

Authors

Hyukgi Min^{1

2}, In Seob Park¹, Takuma Yasuda^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ INAMORI Frontier Research Center (IFRC), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
² Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.

PMID: 33511749
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202016914

Abstract

Herein, we report a material design of linear cis-quinacridone (cis-QA) derivatives as delayed fluorescence luminogens. In contrast to the widely studied traditional trans-isomers, the functionality of cis-QA and its derivatives remains unexplored and unclarified. Through combined computational and experimental investigations, we revealed that cis-QA derivatives can function as fascinating narrowband deep-blue delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The best-performing deep-blue OLEDs incorporating these cis-QA luminogens achieved high external electroluminescence quantum efficiencies of up to 19.0 % and high color purity with chromaticity coordinates of (0.13, 0.14).

Keywords: charge transfer; organic light-emitting diodes; quinacridones; spin-orbit coupling; thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

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