Solid-state emissive organic materials have received increasing attention due to their prospective applications in large-area. Here, a novel pi-extended tetrathiafulvene derivative DPD with donor-pi-donor structure has been newly developed to produce the prominent characteristic of aggregation-induced enhanced emission (AIEE) that exhibits higher fluorescence quantum efficiency in solid film compare to its solutions. The AIEE mechanism of DPD was studied in detail through photophysical investigations and can be dominant attributed to the formed excimer state of DPD and J-aggregates in solid state. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.