Chiral dual-core AIEgens based-on through-space coupling for
high-performance organic light-emitting diodes with little efficiency
roll-off
Abstract
In this work, we demonstrate a chiral dual-core strategy for the design
of high-performance organic circularly polarized aggregation-induced
emission luminogens (AIEgens), which features of connecting two
thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) luminophore with chiral
linkage that allows efficient through-space coupling (TSC) to occur.
Using this strategy, a pair of dual-core enantiomers, R/S-DNKP, were
designed and synthesized by linking two benzophenone derivatives with a
1,1’-bi-2-naphthol unit. Compared to the mono-core counterpart NKP, the
dual-core emitters exhibited a much higher photoluminescence quantum
yields of 94%. Moreover, benefited from their chiral helical folding
configurations, the R/S-DNKP enantiomers exhibited a high luminescence
dissymmetry factor (|glum|) value up to 1.3×10-3 in
film states. Notably, the electroluminescence devices based on the
R/S-DNKP enantiomers achieved external quantum efficiency values of
21.5% and 19.7% with little roll-off. It is believed that this
molecular design strategy will pave new routes for the development of
high-performance chiral emitters for future organic photonic devices.