Wide color-range tunable and low roll-off fluorescent organic light emitting devices based on double undoped ultrathin emitters

•The non-doped EML is economical and promising for OLEDs due to easy fabrication and low reagent consumption process.•We report a novel wide color-range tunable and low efficiency roll-off fluorescent OLED using two undoped ultrathin EML.•The CT-OLEDs are tunable from cold white to warm white with CCT 6932 K and 3072 K, respectively.

We demonstrated a novel wide color-range tunable, highly efficient and low efficiency roll-off fluorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) using two undoped ultrathin emitters having complementary colors and an interlayer between them. The OLED can be tuned to emit sky blue (0.22, 0.30), cold white (0.29, 0.33), warm white (0.43, 0.42) and yellow (0.40, 0.45) according to the Commission Internationale de L’Eclairage (CIE) 1931 (x, y) chromaticity diagram. The device fabrication was simplified by eliminating doping process in the emission layers. The influence of interlayer thickness on luminous efficiency, efficiency roll-off and color tuning mechanism is thoroughly studied. The recombination zone is greatly broadened in the optimized device, which contributes to stable energy transfer to both emitters and suppressed concentration quenching. With a threshold voltage of 2.82 V, the color tunable organic light emitting diode (CT-OLED) shows a maximum luminance of 39,810 cd/m2, a peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) 6% and the efficiency roll-off as low as 11.1% at the luminance from 500 cd/m2 to 5000 cd/m2. This structure of CT-OLED has great advantages of easy fabrication and low reagent consumption. The fabricated CT-OLEDs are tunable from cold white (0.30, 0.36) to warm white (0.43, 0.42) with correlated color temperature (CCT) 6932 K and 3072 K, respectively, demonstrating that our proposed approach helps to meet the need for lighting with various CCTs.

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