A series of tetraarylsilane compounds, namely p -BISiTPA ( 1 ), m -BISiTPA ( 2 ), p -OXDSiTPA ( 3 ), m -OXDSiTPA ( 4 ), are designed and synthesized by incorporating electron-donating arylamine and electron-accepting benzimidazole or oxadiazole into one molecule via a silicon-bridge linkage mode. Their thermal, photophysical and electrochemical properties can be fi nely tuned through the different groups and linking topologies. The para -disposition compounds 1 and 3 display higher glass transition temperatures, slightly lower HOMO levels and triplet energies than their meta -disposition isomers 2 and 4 , respectively. The silicon-interrupted conjugation of the electron-donating and electron-accepting segments gives these materials the following advantages: i) relative high triplet energies in the range of 2.69-2.73 eV; ii) HOMO/LUMO levels of the compounds mainly depend on the electron-donating and electron-accepting groups, respectively; iii) bipolar transporting feature as indicated by hole-only and electron-only devices. These advantages make these materials ideal universal hosts for multicolor phosphorescent OLEDs. 1 and 3 have been demonstrated as universal hosts for blue, green, orange and white electrophosphorescence, exhibiting high effi ciencies and low effi ciency roll-off. For example, the devices hosted by 1 achieve maximum external quantum effi ciencies of 16.1% for blue, 22.7% for green, 20.5% for orange, and 19.1% for white electrophosphorescence. Furthermore, the external quantum effi ciencies are still as high as 14.2% for blue, 22.4% for green, 18.9% for orange, and 17.4% for white electrophosphorescence at a high luminance of 1000 cd m − 2 . The two-color, all-phosphor white device hosted by 3 acquires a maximum current effi ciency of 51.4 cd A − 1 , and a maximum power effi ciency of 51.9 lm W − 1 . These values are among the highest for single emitting layer white PhOLEDs reported till now.
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