Organic single-layer white light-emitting diodes by exciplex emission from spin-coated blends of blue-emitting molecules

We report on white electroluminescence (EL) emission from a single-layer light-emitting diode based on a binary blend of organic soluble blue-emitting molecules, i.e., a diamine derivative and a substituted thiophene-1,1-dioxide. Weakly voltage-dependent white color, of coordinates (0.39, 0.40) according to the standard of the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage, is obtained from the superposition of the blue emission from the donor and a low-energy peak due to a charge-transfer complex between the two molecules (exciplex). The EL spectrum is broader and more structured than the photoluminescence one: this could be due to the activation of exciplexes with different conformations as inferred from quantum-chemistry calculations.

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