Enhancing Reverse Intersystem Crossing via Secondary Acceptors: towards Sky-Blue Fluorescent Diodes with Tenfold-Improved Exter-nal Quantum Efficiency

摘要： How to simply but effectively facilitate reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) transition is always the key issue for developing high-performance thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) dyes. In this work, as a proof of concept, a feasible strategy named 'acceptor enhancement' is demonstrated with a series of ternary blue emitters (xCzmPOnTPTZ) using diphenylphosphine oxide (PO) as secondary acceptors. Compared with its PO-free binary analogue, such simple introduction of PO groups in pCzPO2TPTZ dramatically enhances its RISC rate constant (kRISC) by 10 times to the level of ~105 s-1, accompanied by RISC efficiency (ηRISC) of 92%, which further improves the triplet-to-singlet upconversion for effective triplet harvesting in its devices. As the result, on the basis of a trilayer device structure, pCzPO2TPTZ realized a state-of-the-art external quantum efficiency (EQE) beyond 20% with tenfold improvement.