The blue thermally activated delay fluorescence (TADF)
emitters are highly attractive in the fields of constructing hybrid
white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) due to its high efficiency
and color stability. However, few blue TADF emitters can withstand
sequential orthogonal solvents, making it impossible to fabricate
the fully solution-processed hybrid WOLEDs. Here, two TADF materials,
PCz-4CzCN and TPA-4CzCN, were designed and synthesized by equipping
the emissive core with nonconjugated bulky units, which can effectively
enhance the solvent resistance ability without disturbing the TADF
feature. The photophysical investigation indicates that phenylcarbazole
unit can efficiently block the electromer formation to enhance the
energy transfer and exciton utilization of the emitter. Accordingly,
the blue OLEDs of PCz-4CzCN shows higher external quantum efficiency
(EQE) of 22.6%, which is the best performance recorded among the fully
solution-processed blue OLEDs. Upon further doping, the yellow phosphor
PO-01, the fully solution-processed TADF-phosphor (T–P) hybrid
WOLEDs was successfully obtained with high performance for the first
time. Thanks to the efficient exciplex formation, the turn-on voltage
of the white device is only 2.8 V, and the maximum brightness and
power efficiency are as high as 53 300 cd m–2 and 38.5 lm W–1, respectively, which are even
higher than the previous reported T–P hybrid WOLEDs with a
vacuum-deposited electron transfer layer.