Phenothiazine derivatives as an easily accessible emitter for green light-emitting electrochemical cells

A new phenothiazine derivatives of an ionic small molecules were synthesized and its photo- and electrochemical properties were evaluated. The compounds NPzN and PPzP exhibits good thermal stabilities and shows positive solvatochromism upon increasing the polarity of the solvents. The single-component electroluminescence devices were fabricated from solution by incorporating both the emitters. Light-emitting electrochemical cell devices exhibited green color electroluminescence for both the compounds with the CIE coordinates of (0.28, 0.43) and (0.32, 0.41). These results indicate that phenothiazine derivatives have a promising prospect in the application of solution processed green LECs.