Luminescent columnar discotics as highly efficient emitters in pure deep-blue OLEDs with an external quantum efficiency of 4.7.

De, Joydip; Sarkar, Ishan; Yadav, Rohit Ashok Kumar; Bala, Indu; Gupta, Santosh Prasad; Siddiqui, Iram; Jou, Jwo-Huei; Pal, Santanu Kumar · Soft Matter · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Development of materials that serve as efficient blue emitters in solution-processable OLEDs is challenging. In this study, we report three derivatives of <i>C</i><sub>3</sub>-symmetric 1,3,5-tris(thien-2-yl)benzene-based highly luminescent room temperature columnar discotic liquid crystals (DLCs) suitable as solid-state emitters in OLED devices. When employed in solution-processed OLEDs, one of the derivatives having the highest photoluminescence quantum yield exhibited a maximum EQE of 4.7% and CIE chromaticity of (0.16, 0.05) corresponding to the ultra deep-blue emission. The finding is sufficiently significant in the field of DLC-based deep blue emitters.