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Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes based on a doublet d-f transition cerium(III) complex with 100% exciton utilization efficiency.

Liding WangZifeng ZhaoGe ZhanHuayi FangHannan YangTianyu HuangYuewei ZhangNan JiangLian DuanZhiwei LiuZuqiang BianZheng Hong LuChunhui Huang
Published in: Light, science & applications (2020)
Compared to red and green organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), blue OLEDs are still the bottleneck due to the lack of efficient emitters with simultaneous high exciton utilization efficiency (EUE) and short excited-state lifetime. Different from the fluorescence, phosphorescence, thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), and organic radical materials traditionally used in OLEDs, we demonstrate herein a new type of emitter, cerium(III) complex Ce-1 with spin-allowed and parity-allowed d-f transition of the centre Ce3+ ion. The compound exhibits a high EUE up to 100% in OLEDs and a short excited-state lifetime of 42 ns, which is considerably faster than that achieved in efficient phosphorescence and TADF emitters. The optimized OLEDs show an average maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 12.4% and Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.146, 0.078).
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