Analysis reveals optimal exciton utilization in blue organic light-emitting diodes, suggesting improved device architecture.
Combining crystalline materials with emissive materials featuring high exciton utilization efficiency represents an important strategy for developing high‐photon‐output organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, a novel hot exciton material, PCC, is reported. A non‐doped, amorphous deep‐blue OLED based on PCC exhibits an electroluminescent (EL) emission peak at 436 nm and achieves a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 13.77%. This is one of the highest performance levels reported for emitters based on the “hot exciton” mechanism. PCC is further embedded as nanoaggregates (NA) into a crystalline host matrix (CHM), serving as a sensitizer for blue dopant (D), enabling efficient exciton utilization. This approach enabled the fabrication of a high‐performance blue crystalline OLED (C‐OLED) with an EQE approaching 10%. Benefiting from the high mobility of CHM, the device exhibited a rapid increase in luminance and current density. Compared with previously reported high‐performance amorphous OLEDs (A‐OLEDs, CIE y ≤ 0.20), the C‐OLED delivered enhanced photon output along with a significantly lower ratio of Joule heat loss due to series resistance. These findings provide new insights into device architecture design for high‐efficiency blue OLEDs.
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