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ArticleLight, science & applications2026

Narrowband, angle-stable, and highly efficient polariton organic light emitting diodes employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

Andreas Mischok, Simon Lennartz, Vanessa Gruber, Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Julia Witt, Sabina Hillebrandt, Malte C Gather

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Andreas Mischok *Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany. andreas.mischok@uni-koeln.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4725-7404
Simon Lennartz *Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7189-3764
Vanessa GruberHumboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-5375-6555
Francisco Tenopala-CarmonaHumboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Julia WittHumboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Sabina HillebrandtHumboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2628-385X
Malte C GatherHumboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany. malte.gather@uni-koeln.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4857-5562

Funding

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) Humboldt ProfessorshipBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 16LW0454Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) RTG2591EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101023743European Commission (EC) 101097878
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Abstract

Narrowband emission is crucial for next generation optoelectronic devices to satisfy demands for high color brilliance. Microcavities can narrow the emission spectra of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) through the creation of resonant standing waves, independent of emitter material, enabling flexibility in molecular and device design. However, this introduces a strong angle-dependence of the perceived emission color. Utilizing strong light-matter coupling of cavity photons with the virtually angle-independent exciton, leads to exciton-polariton emission which offers a further reduction in linewidth and suppresses angular dispersion if tuned correctly. Creating polaritons in highly efficient materials such as thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules is however difficult as their low oscillator strengths intrinsically disfavor light-matter interaction. Here, we present the successful combination of a highly efficient but intrinsically broadband TADF emitter, CzDBA, with a strongly absorbing assistant strong coupling material, C545T, in a modified microcavity OLED structure. Through optimizing the assistant strong coupling layer architecture and integrating it with a highly conductive p-doped hole transport layer, we demonstrate polariton OLEDs with exceptionally narrowband, angle stable emission at external quantum efficiencies above 20% for both bottom- and top-emitting designs, more than doubling the performance compared to previously reported polariton OLEDs. Importantly, the fabrication of our polariton OLED stack does not require significant structural changes relative to existing microcavity OLEDs. Combined with their high efficiency, this paves the way for future utilization of polaritonic emission in commercial display applications.

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PMCPMC13572423

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