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Chuluo Yang

Bio: Chuluo Yang is an academic researcher from Wuhan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: OLED & Quantum efficiency. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 382 publications receiving 17893 citations. Previous affiliations of Chuluo Yang include Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shenzhen University.


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TL;DR: This critical review focuses on small-molecular organic host materials as triplet guest emitters in PhOLEDs, using typical hole and electron transport materials used in OLEDs.
Abstract: Phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) unfurl a bright future for the next generation of flat-panel displays and lighting sources due to their merit of high quantum efficiency compared with fluorescent OLEDs. This critical review focuses on small-molecular organic host materials as triplet guest emitters in PhOLEDs. At first, some typical hole and electron transport materials used in OLEDs are briefly introduced. Then the hole transport-type, electron transport-type, bipolar transport host materials and the pure-hydrocarbon compounds are comprehensively presented. The molecular design concept, molecular structures and physical properties such as triplet energy, HOMO/LUMO energy levels, thermal and morphological stabilities, and the applications of host materials in PhOLEDs are reviewed (152 references).

1,072 citations

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TL;DR: The key issues on suppressing close-packing, achieving pure blue chromaticity, improving thermal and morphological stabilities, manipulating charge transporting abilities, simplifying device structures and the applications in panchromatic OLEDs are discussed.
Abstract: Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are competitive candidates for the next generation flat-panel displays and solid state lighting sources. Efficient blue-emitting materials have been one of the most important prerequisites to kick off the commercialization of OLEDs. This tutorial review focuses on the design of blue fluorescent emitters and their applications in OLEDs. At first, some typical blue fluorescent materials as dopants are briefly introduced. Then nondoped blue emitters of hydrocarbon compounds are presented. Finally, the nondoped blue emitters endowed with hole-, electron- and bipolar-transporting abilities are comprehensively reviewed. The key issues on suppressing close-packing, achieving pure blue chromaticity, improving thermal and morphological stabilities, manipulating charge transporting abilities, simplifying device structures and the applications in panchromatic OLEDs are discussed.

708 citations

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TL;DR: This finding relaxes the usually stringent material requirements for effective TADF emitters by comprising smaller radiative transition rates and less than ideal ΦPL s.
Abstract: The combination of rigid acridine donor and 1,8-naphthalimide acceptor has afforded two orange-red emitters of NAI-DMAC and NAI-DPAC with high rigidity in molecular structure and strongly pretwisted charge transfer state. Endowed with high photoluminescence quantum yields (ΦPL ), distinct thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) characteristics, and preferentially horizontal emitting dipole orientations, these emitters afford record-high orange-red TADF organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with external quantum efficiencies of up to 21-29.2%, significantly surpassing all previously reported orange-to-red TADF OLEDs. Notably, the influence of microcavity effect is verified to support the record-high efficiency. This finding relaxes the usually stringent material requirements for effective TADF emitters by comprising smaller radiative transition rates and less than ideal ΦPL s.

482 citations

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TL;DR: A novelcarbazole/oxadiazole hybrid molecule o-CzOXD linked through the 9-position of carbazole with the ortho position of 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-oxADiazole is reported, which could be a worthwhile target to develop host materials with good thermal stability and matching energy levels to replace CBP.
Abstract: Phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs) continue to attract intense interest because they can, in theory, approach a 100% internal quantum efficiency by utilizing both singlet and triplet excitons. To achieve highly efficient electrophosphorescence by reducing competitive factors such as concentration quenching and triplet–triplet annihilation, phosphorescent emitters of heavy-metal complexes are usually doped into a suitable host material. Thus the synthesis of host materials and dopants are equally important for the formation of efficient PHOLEDs. It is desirable that the host materials have a large enough bandgap for effective energy transfer to the guest, good carrier transport properties for a balanced recombination of carriers in the emitting layer, and energy-level matching with neighboring layers for effective charge injection. Recently, bipolar hosts have aroused considerable interests in the area of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) because they can provide more balance in electron and hole fluxes and simplify device structure. However, a compromise is required between the bipolar transporting property and band gap of the material, because the electron-donating and electron-withdrawing moieties in bipolar molecules unavoidably lower the band gap of the material by intramolecular charge transfer, while the low triplet energy of the host can cause reverse energy transfer from the guest back to the host, which consequently decreases the efficiency of PHOLEDs. To address this issue, most recent molecular designs focus on the interruption of the p conjugation between electron-donating and electron-withdrawing moieties by the incorporation of steric groups and/or meta linkages between the two moieties. Efficient blue (46 lmW , 24%), green (27.3 cdA ) and orange (22 cdA , 7.8%) electrophosphorescence from such small bipolar host molecules has been reported. Carbazole derivatives can be used as host materials because of their high triplet energy and good hole-transporting ability. For example, 4,4’-N,N’-dicarbazolbiphenyl (CBP) is a popular host for triplet emitters. PHOLEDs that use CBP as a host material for various dopants have been reported to have peak efficiencies as high as 28 cdA 1 for green (fac-tris(2-phenylpyridinato-N,C)iridium, [Ir(ppy)3]), [1a] 52 cdA 1 for green (tris[3,6-bis(phenyl)-pyridazinato-N,C]iridium [Ir(BPPya)3]) [7] and 5.82 cdA 1 for deep red (a dendritic iridium complex). Unfortunately, the CBP host is prone to crystallization, especially when the dopant concentration is too low. Furthermore, red PHOLEDs containing a CBP host usually need high driving voltages because the poor energy match between CBP and adjacent holeand electron-transporting layers can result in insufficient and/or unbalanced injection of holes and electrons. It is a worthwhile target to develop host materials with good thermal stability and matching energy levels to replace CBP. Oxadiazole derivatives have been proven to be very effective in improving the injection and transport of electrons. For example, 2-(4-biphenylyl)-5-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (PBD) and 1,3-bis[4-tert-butylphenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazolyl]phenylene (OXD7) are usually incorporated in OLEDs as electron-transport materials. Herein we report a novel carbazole/oxadiazole hybrid molecule o-CzOXD linked through the 9-position of carbazole with the ortho position of 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole. The bipolar molecule o-CzOXD was easily prepared by an aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction between carbazole and the fluoroarene, which was activated by the electron-withdrawing oxadiazole, with good yields of over 80% (Scheme 1). The reaction proceeded in the absence of any catalyst, and the product was easily purified by recrystallization from CHCl3/C2H5OH rather than column chromatography. Thus, this simple method has obvious advantages over common palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. oCzOXD was characterized by H NMR and C NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and elemental analysis; its molecular structure was further confirmed by X-ray crystallography (Figure 1). The dihedral angle between the carbazole unit and the phenyl ring is 51.48 ; this twist in the

440 citations

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Cong Fan1, Chuluo Yang1
TL;DR: This article will review the progress on yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes as phosphors in OLEDs, and the structure-property relationship and electrophosphorescence performance of the yellow/ orange heavy- metal complexes in monochromatic phosphorescent OLEDs and white OLEDs will be comprehensively surveyed and discussed.
Abstract: Owing to the electron spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and fast intersystem crossing (ISC), heavy-metal complexes (such as iridium(III), platinum(II) and osmium(II) complexes, etc.) are phosphorescent emitters at room temperature. Since 1998, heavy-metal complexes as phosphors have received considerable academic and industrial attention in the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), because they can harvest both the singlet (25%) and triplet (75%) excitons for emission during the electro-generated processes. Among all the visible colors (blue, green, yellow, orange and red), the yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes play an important role for realizing full-color OLEDs as well as high-efficiency white OLEDs, and thus the development of highly efficient yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes is a pressing concern. In this article, we will review the progress on yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes as phosphors in OLEDs. The general principles and useful tactics for designing the yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes will be systematically summarized. The structure-property relationship and electrophosphorescence performance of the yellow/orange heavy-metal complexes in monochromatic phosphorescent OLEDs (PhOLEDs) and white OLEDs (WOLEDs) will be comprehensively surveyed and discussed.

389 citations


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TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the chiral stationary phase transition of Na6(CO3)(SO4)2, a major component of the response of the immune system to Na2CO3.
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5,658 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a ladder-type electron-deficient core-based central fused ring (Dithienothiophen[3.2-b]- pyrrolobenzothiadiazole) with a benzothiadiadiazoles (BT) core was proposed to fine-tune its absorption and electron affinity.

3,513 citations

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