Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2015, 8 (3): 274, 网络出版: 2016-01-06  

Blue fluorophores comprised of tetraphenylethene and imidazole: aggregation-induced emission and electroluminescence

Blue fluorophores comprised of tetraphenylethene and imidazole: aggregation-induced emission and electroluminescence
作者单位
1 College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China
2 Guangdong Innovative Research Team, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640, China
3 Center for Display Research, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
4 Department of Chemistry, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
摘要
By melting tetraphenylethene (TPE) and 1,2,4,5-tetraphenyl-1H-imidazole (TPI) units together through different linking positions, three new fluorophores are synthesized, and their optical, electronic and electroluminescence (EL) properties are fully studied. Owing to the presence of TPE unit(s), these fluorophores are weak emitters in solutions, but are induced to emit strongly in the aggregated state, presenting typical aggregation-induced emission characteristics. The experimental and computational results reveal that different connection patterns between TPE and TPI could impact the molecular conjugation greatly, leading to varied emission wavelength, fluorescence quantum yield and EL performance in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The fluorophore built by attaching TPE unit to the 1-position of imidazole ring shows bluest fluorescence, and its EL device emits at deep blue region (445 nm; CIE = (0.16, 0.15)). And the device based on the fluorophore by linking TPE to the 2- position of imidazole ring shows EL at 467 nm (CIE = (0.17, 0.22)) with good efficiencies of 3.17 cd·A–1, and 1.77%.
Abstract
By melting tetraphenylethene (TPE) and 1,2,4,5-tetraphenyl-1H-imidazole (TPI) units together through different linking positions, three new fluorophores are synthesized, and their optical, electronic and electroluminescence (EL) properties are fully studied. Owing to the presence of TPE unit(s), these fluorophores are weak emitters in solutions, but are induced to emit strongly in the aggregated state, presenting typical aggregation-induced emission characteristics. The experimental and computational results reveal that different connection patterns between TPE and TPI could impact the molecular conjugation greatly, leading to varied emission wavelength, fluorescence quantum yield and EL performance in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The fluorophore built by attaching TPE unit to the 1-position of imidazole ring shows bluest fluorescence, and its EL device emits at deep blue region (445 nm; CIE = (0.16, 0.15)). And the device based on the fluorophore by linking TPE to the 2- position of imidazole ring shows EL at 467 nm (CIE = (0.17, 0.22)) with good efficiencies of 3.17 cd·A–1, and 1.77%.light emitting diode (OLED)
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Jiayun XIANG, Han NIE, Yibin JIANG, Jian ZHOU, Hoi Sing KWOK, Zujin ZHAO, Ben Zhong TANG. Blue fluorophores comprised of tetraphenylethene and imidazole: aggregation-induced emission and electroluminescence[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2015, 8(3): 274. Jiayun XIANG, Han NIE, Yibin JIANG, Jian ZHOU, Hoi Sing KWOK, Zujin ZHAO, Ben Zhong TANG. Blue fluorophores comprised of tetraphenylethene and imidazole: aggregation-induced emission and electroluminescence[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2015, 8(3): 274.

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