Efficient, color-stable and high color-rendering-index white organic light-emitting diodes employing full thermally activated delayed fluorescence system

Abstract High efficiency, high color rendering index (CRI) and excellent color-stability are important requirements for high-performance white organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs). To realize these issues for the WOLEDs based on the full thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) system, we constructed WOLED devices by employing CDBP:PO-T2T exciplex as the host, while 2CzPN and AnbTPA as blue and red dopants, respectively. We carefully optimize the device to realize balanced carrier transporting property of each emitting layer and good exciton confinement in the device. As a result, the WOLED achieves stable white emission with a high CRI of 82, a CIE coordinate of (0.33, 0.38) at a luminance of 1000 cd m −2 , and a small CIE variation value of (0.00, 0.02) in the luminance range of 100–3000 cd m −2 . It also demonstrates high maximum forward-viewing external quantum efficiency of 19.2%, current efficiency of 36.7 cd A −1 and power efficiency of 46.2 lm W −1 . Our work presents a novel and useful approach to develop highly efficient, color-stable and high-CRI WOLEDs through the full TADF mechanism.

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