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Using tetraphenylethene and carbazole to create efficient luminophores with aggregation-induced emission, high thermal stability, and good hole-transporting property
Zhao, Zujin,Chan, Carrie Y. K.,Chen, Shuming,Deng, Chunmei,Lam, Jacky W. Y.,Jim, Cathy K. W.,Hong, Yuning,Lu, Ping,Chang, Zhengfeng,Chen, Xiaopeng,Kwok, Hoi Sing,Qiu, Huayu,Tang, Ben Zhong
experimental part, p. 4527 - 4534 (2012/08/08)
Tetraphenylethene (TPE) is an archetypal luminogen that exhibits a phenomenon of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), while carbazole is a conventional chromophore which shows the opposite effect of aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) of light emission in the condensed phase. Melding the two units at the molecular level generates a group of new luminescent materials that suffer no ACQ effect but depict high solid-state fluorescence quantum yields up to unity, demonstrative of the uniqueness of the approach to solve the ACQ problem of traditional luminophores. All the TPE-carbazole adducts are thermally and morphologically stable, showing high glass-transition temperatures (up to 179 °C) and thermal-degradation temperatures (up to 554 °C). Multilayer electroluminescence devices with configurations of ITO/NPB/emitter/TPBi/Alq 3/LiF/Al are constructed, which exhibit sky blue light in high luminance (up to 13650 cd m-2) and high current and external quantum efficiencies (up to 3.8 cd A-1, and 1.8%, respectively). The devices of the luminogens fabricated in the absence of NPB or hole-transporting layer show even higher efficiencies up to 6.3 cd A-1 and 2.3%, thanks to the good hole-transporting property of the carbazole unit.