Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Deep Blue Organic Light Emitting Diodes: A Review of Recent Advances

• Main Authors: Thanh-Tuân Bui, Fabrice Goubard, Malika Ibrahim-Ouali, Didier Gigmes, Frédéric Dumur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: thermally activated delayed fluorescence; TADF; deep blue emitter; organic light emitting diode; OLED
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/4/494

Organic light-emitting diodes offer attractive perspectives for the next generation display and lighting technologies. The potential is huge and the list of potential applications is almost endless. So far, blue emitters still suffer from noticeably inferior electroluminescence performances in terms of efficiency, lifespan, color quality, and charge injection/transport when compared to that of the other colors. Emitting materials matching the NTSC standard blue of coordinates (0.14, 0.08) are extremely rare and still constitutes the focus of numerous academic and industrial researches. In this context, we review herein the recent developments on highly emissive deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters that constitute the third-generation electroluminescent materials.