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White light-emitting electrochemical cells based on metal-free TADF emitters
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics. LunaLEC AB, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1274-5918
Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8530-8132
Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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2025 (English)In: Nature Communications, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 16, no 1, article id 653Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The attainment of white emission from a light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) is important, since it enables illumination and facile color conversion from devices that can be cost-efficient and sustainable. However, a drawback with current white LECs is that they either employ non-sustainable metals as an emitter constituent or are intrinsically efficiency limited by that the emitter only converts singlet excitons to photons. Organic compounds that emit by thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) can address these issues since they can harvest all excitons for light emission while being metal free. Here, we report on the first white LEC based on solely metal-free TADF emitters, as accomplished through careful tuning of the energy-transfer processes and the electrochemically formed doping structure in the single-layer active material. The designed TADF-LEC emits angle-invariant white light (color rendering index = 88) with an external quantum efficiency of 2.1 % at a luminance of 350 cd/m2.

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Springer Nature, 2025. Vol. 16, no 1, article id 653
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-234875DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55954-3ISI: 001397956900008PubMedID: 39809760Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85215758803OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-234875DiVA, id: diva2:1935092
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Swedish Research Council, 2019-02345Swedish Research Council, 2021-04778Swedish Energy Agency, 50779-1Swedish Energy Agency, P2021-00032Bertil & Britt Svenssons Stiftelse för BelysningsteknikThe Kempe FoundationsOlle Engkvists stiftelseKnut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, KAW 2022.0381Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, WISE-AP01-D02EU, European Research Council, 101096650Available from: 2025-02-06 Created: 2025-02-06 Last updated: 2025-02-06Bibliographically approved

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