TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brust, Felix
A1  - Nagler, Oliver
A1  - Shoyama, Kazutaka
A1  - Stolte, Matthias
A1  - Würthner, Frank
T1  - Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on Silandiol‐Bay‐Bridged Perylene Bisimides
JF  - Advanced Optical Materials
N2  - Perylene bisimides (PBIs) are among the best fluorophores but have to be enwrapped for optoelectronic applications by large and heavy substituents to prevent their ππ‐stacking, which is known to accelerate non‐radiative decay processes in the solid state. Here, light‐weight di‐tert‐butylsilyl groups are introduced to bridge 1,12‐dihydroxy and 1,6,7,12‐tetrahydroxy PBIs to afford sublimable dyes for vacuum‐processed optoelectronic devices. For both new compounds, this substitution provides a twisted and shielded perylene π‐core whose, via OSiObridges, rigid structure affords well‐resolved absorption and emission spectra with strong fluorescence in solution, as well as in the solid state. The usefulness of these dyes for vacuum‐processed optoelectronic devices is demonstrated in organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) that show monomer‐like emission spectra and high maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) values of up to 3.1% for the doubly silicon‐bridged PBI.
KW  - organic light emitting diodes
KW  - perylene bisimide dyes
KW  - rigidification
KW  - solid‐state emission
KW  - vacuum processable
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-312599
VL  - 11
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wen, Xinbo
A1  - Nowak-Król, Agnieszka
A1  - Nagler, Oliver
A1  - Kraus, Felix
A1  - Zhu, Na
A1  - Zheng, Nan
A1  - Müller, Matthias
A1  - Schmidt, David
A1  - Xie, Zengqi
A1  - Würthner, Frank
T1  - Tetrahydroxy-perylene bisimide embedded in zinc oxide thin film as electron transporting layer for high performance non-fullerene organic solar cells
JF  - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
N2  - By introduction of four hydroxy (HO) groups into the two perylene bisimide (PBI) bay areas, new HO‐PBI ligands were obtained which upon deprotonation can complex ZnII ions and photosensitize semiconductive zinc oxide thin films. Such coordination is beneficial for dispersing PBI photosensitizer molecules evenly into metal oxide films to fabricate organic–inorganic hybrid interlayers for organic solar cells. Supported by the photoconductive effect of the ZnO:HO‐PBI hybrid interlayers, improved electron collection and transportation is achieved in fullerene and non‐fullerene polymer solar cell devices, leading to remarkable power conversion efficiencies of up to 15.95 % for a non‐fullerene based organic solar cell.
KW  - hydroxylation
KW  - metal complexenes
KW  - perylene bisimide
KW  - photoconductive interlayer
KW  - solar cells
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-204723
VL  - 58
IS  - 37
ER  -