Triptycene‐Fused Sterically Shielded Multi‐Resonance TADF Emitter Enables High‐Efficiency Deep Blue OLEDs with Reduced Dexter Energy Transfer

Abstract

AbstractDesigning multi‐resonance (MR) emitters that can simultaneously achieve narrowband emission and suppressed intermolecular interactions is challenging for realizing high color purity and stable blue organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). Herein, a sterically shielded yet extremely rigid emitter based on a triptycene‐fused B,N core (Tp‐DABNA) is proposed to address the issue. Tp‐DABNA exhibits intense deep blue emissions with a narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM) and a high horizontal transition dipole ratio, superior to the well‐known bulky emitter, t‐DABNA. The rigid MR skeleton of Tp‐DABNA suppresses structural relaxation in the excited state, with reduced contributions from the medium‐ and high‐frequency vibrational modes to spectral broadening. The hyperfluorescence (HF) film composed of a sensitizer and Tp‐DABNA shows reduced Dexter energy transfer compared to those of t‐DABNA and DABNA‐1. Notably, deep blue TADF‐OLEDs with the Tp‐DABNA emitter display higher external quantum efficiencies (EQEmax=24.8 %) and narrower FWHMs (≤26 nm) than t‐DABNA‐based OLEDs (EQEmax=19.8 %). The HF‐OLEDs based on the Tp‐DABNA emitter further demonstrate improved performance with an EQEmax of 28.7 % and mitigated efficiency roll‐offs.