Fused π‐Extended Multiple‐Resonance Induced Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for High‐Efficiency and Narrowband OLEDs with Low Efficiency Roll‐Off

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Abstract

Abstract The simultaneous achievement of multiple‐resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR‐TADF) materials with strong narrowband emission and efficient reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process can further promote the advancement of organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). Herein, a new strategy is proposed to achieve two π‐extended MR‐TADF emitters (NBO and NBNP) peaking at 487 and 500 nm via fusing conjugated high‐triplet‐energy units (carbazole, dibenzofuran) into boron‐nitrogen (B/N) framework, aiming to increase charge transfer delocalization of the B/N skeleton and minimize singlet‐triplet energy gap (∆ E ST ). This strategy endows the two emitters with full width at half maximum of 27 and 29 nm, and high photoluminescence efficiencies above 90% in doped films, respectively. Additionally, considerable rate constants of RISC are obtained due to the small ∆ E ST (0.12 and 0.09 eV) and large spin‐orbital coupling values. Consequently, the OLEDs based on NBO and NBNP show the maximum external electroluminescence quantum efficiency of up to 26.1% and 28.0%, respectively, accompanied by low‐efficiency roll‐off. These results provide a feasible design strategy to construct efficient MR‐TADF materials for OLEDs with suppressed efficiency roll‐off.

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