Thermally activated delayed-fluorescence organic light-emitting diodes based on exciplex emitter with high efficiency and low roll-off

•TADF OLEDs are demonstrated based on exciplex formed between commercially available TAPC and T2T.•The device shows a highest EQE of 11.6%.•A low efficiency roll-off is also demonstrated.•The low efficiency roll-off is attributed to the short lifetime of delayed fluorescence and the small singlet-triplet splitting.

Highly efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on exciplex are demonstrated in a blended system with commercially available 1,1-bis((di-4-tolylamino)phenyl)cyclohexane (TAPC) and 2,4,6-tris(biphenyl-3-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (T2T). By well adjusting the ratio between these two materials, the optimized device shows a low turn-on voltage of 2.4 V and a high external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 11.6%. More importantly, the device retains an EQE of 9.4% even at a high luminescence of 1000 cd/m2. The low efficiency roll-off is attributed to the small singlet-triplet splitting and the short of the delayed fluorescence lifetime. Both EQE and efficiency roll-off are ones of the best performance among the reported TADF OLEDs based on exciplex.

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