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Color-tunable circularly polarized electroluminescence from a helical chiral multiple resonance emitter with B-N bonds

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Chiral B,N-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and small full-width at half-maxima (FWHM) are promising multiple resonance (MR) emitters for CP organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs). This work presents a pair of chiral MR enantiomers, P/M-o[B-N]2N2, featuring B-N bonds incorporated within a [7]-helicene skeleton. These enantiomers exhibit narrow 0–0 and 0–1 electronic transition bands, whose relative intensity can be fine-tuned by increasing doping concentrations, resulting in redshifts of the emission peak from 542 to 592 nm. The enantiomers show mirror-symmetric CPL spectra with an asymmetry factor (∣gPL∣) of 1.0 × 10−3. The hyperfluorescent CP-OLEDs with double-sensitized emitting layers display a FWHM of 33 nm, an external quantum efficiency of 25.1%, and a ∣gEL∣ factor of 7.7 × 10−4. Notably, the CP-OLEDs realize color-tunable CP electroluminescence peak from 553 to 613 nm by regulating the vibrational coupling. This work provides a novel concept for the design of helical CP-MR materials and CP-OLEDs, highlighting their potential for future applications in advanced optoelectronic devices.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (92256304, 21975119) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022M710020).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Li Yuan, Zhen-Long Tu, Jun-Wei Xu, Hua-Xiu Ni & You-Xuan Zheng

  2. Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, 518172, China

    Zhen-Long Tu

  3. School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Zhen-Long Tu

  4. Guangzhou Research & Creativity Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Guangzhou, 510700, China

    Zhi-Ping Mao & Wen-Ye Xu

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Yuan, L., Tu, ZL., Xu, JW. et al. Color-tunable circularly polarized electroluminescence from a helical chiral multiple resonance emitter with B-N bonds. Sci. China Chem. 66, 2612–2620 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-023-1712-5

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