Ultraefficient Non‐Doped Deep Blue Fluorescent OLED: Achieving a High EQE of 10.17% at 1000 cd m−2 with CIEy<0.08

Abstract

AbstractThe pursuit for efficient deep blue material is an ever‐increasing issue in organic optoelectronics field. It is a long‐standing challenge to achieve high external quantum efficiency (EQE) exceed 10% at brightness of 1000 cd m−2 with a Commission International de L'Eclairage (CIEy) <0.08 in non‐doped organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). Herein, this study reports a deep blue luminogen, PPITPh, by bonding phenanthro[9,10‐d]imidazole moiety with m‐terphenyl group via benzene bridge. The non‐doped OLED based on PPITPh exhibits an exceptionally high EQE of 11.83% with a CIE coordinate of (0.15, 0.07). The EQE still maintains 10.17% at the brightness of 1000 cd m−2, and even at a brightness as high as 10000 cd m−2, an EQE of 7.5% is still remained, representing the record‐high result among non‐doped deep‐blue OLEDs at 1000 cd m−2. The unprecedented device performance is attributed to the reversed intersystem crossing process through hot exciton mechanism. Besides, the maximum EQE of orange phosphorescent OLED with PPITPh as host is 32.02%, and remains 31.17% at the brightness of 1000 cd m−2. Such minimal efficiency roll‐off demonstrates that PPITPh is also an excellent phosphorescent host material. The result offers a new design strategy for the enrichment of high‐efficiency deep blue luminogen.