TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficient Interfacial Upconversion Enabling Bright Emission at an Extremely Low Driving Voltage in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
AU - Izawa, Seiichiro
AU - Morimoto, Masahiro
AU - Naka, Shigeki
AU - Hiramoto, Masahiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Advanced Optical Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
PY - 2022/2/18
Y1 - 2022/2/18
N2 - A remaining frontier in the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is reducing their operating voltage. Herein, an efficient OLED is reported, operable by a 1.5 V battery, that produces bright emission equivalent to the luminance of a typical display. The OLED has a smaller turn-on voltage at 0.97 V than an optical energy of emitted photons at 2.04 eV (608 nm), because the OLED is based on an upconversion (UC) transition associated with triplet–triplet annihilation that doubles the energy of excited states. The characteristics of charge transfer (CT) state at the interface have been revealed, which are key to efficient UC, and the percentage of excited states deactivated by parasitic loss processes during the UC transition is significantly reduced from over 90% to approximately 10% by introducing a highly crystalline acceptor material and an emissive dopant. Consequently, the UC-OLED achieves a quantum efficiency that is two orders of magnitude higher than that in the previous report.
AB - A remaining frontier in the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is reducing their operating voltage. Herein, an efficient OLED is reported, operable by a 1.5 V battery, that produces bright emission equivalent to the luminance of a typical display. The OLED has a smaller turn-on voltage at 0.97 V than an optical energy of emitted photons at 2.04 eV (608 nm), because the OLED is based on an upconversion (UC) transition associated with triplet–triplet annihilation that doubles the energy of excited states. The characteristics of charge transfer (CT) state at the interface have been revealed, which are key to efficient UC, and the percentage of excited states deactivated by parasitic loss processes during the UC transition is significantly reduced from over 90% to approximately 10% by introducing a highly crystalline acceptor material and an emissive dopant. Consequently, the UC-OLED achieves a quantum efficiency that is two orders of magnitude higher than that in the previous report.
KW - charge transfer states
KW - donor/acceptor interface
KW - driving voltage
KW - organic light-emitting diodes
KW - upconversion
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U2 - 10.1002/adom.202101710
DO - 10.1002/adom.202101710
M3 - 学術論文
AN - SCOPUS:85122327124
SN - 2195-1071
VL - 10
JO - Advanced Optical Materials
JF - Advanced Optical Materials
IS - 4
M1 - 2101710
ER -