One of the challenges in organic
light-emitting diodes research
is finding ways to increase device efficiency by making use of the
triplet excitons that are inevitably generated in the process of electroluminescence.
One way to do so is by thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF),
a process in which triplet excitons undergo upconversion to singlet
states, allowing them to relax radiatively. The discovery of this
phenomenon has ensued a quest for new materials that are able to effectively
take advantage of this mechanism. From a theoretical standpoint, this
requires the capacity to estimate the rates of the various processes
involved in the photophysics of candidate molecules, such as intersystem
crossing, reverse intersystem crossing, fluorescence, and phosphorescence.
Here, we present a method that is able to, within a single framework,
compute all of these rates and predict the photophysics of new molecules.
We apply the method to two TADF molecules and show that results compare
favorably with other theoretical approaches and experimental results.
Finally, we use a kinetic model to show how the calculated rates act
in concert to produce different photophysical behavior.
A new twisted donor–acceptor–donor (D–A–D) multi-photofunctional organic molecule comprising of phenoselenazine as the electron-donors (Ds) and dibenzo[a,j]phenazine (DBPHZ) as the electron-acceptor (A) has been developed. The developed selenium-incorporated D–A–D compound...
Exploring the design principle for switching thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) is a fundamentally imporant research in developing triplet-mediated photofunctional organic materials. Herein systematic studies...
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