Porphyrin and M-Porphyrin (M = Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Ni 2+ , Cu 2+ , and Zn 2+ ) complexes were designed to examine their organic light-emitting diode (OLED) properties. All calculations were performed in different media, which are gas, benzene, DMSO, and water phases. The calculations of both porphyrin and its metal complexes as a monomer form were performed at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level by using the Gaussian 16 and GaussView 6 package programs. On the other hand, emission calculations for the monomer form and dimer form computations of the studied compounds were carried out at PBE0/TZP and B3LYP/TZP levels, respectively, by using Amsterdam density functional (ADF) 2019 package program. The OLED tensors of the mentioned molecules, which are emission energies, reorganization energies (λ e and λ h ), the ionization potentials and the electron affinities (adiabatic and vertical), the effective transfer integrals (V e and V h ), and the charge transfer rates (W e and W h ), were calculated to evaluate the OLED behaviors and determine the best OLED structure.
K E Y W O R D Scharge transfer rate, OLED material, porphyrin, reorganization energy, transfer integral
| INTRODUCTIONThe improvement of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) including π-conjugated systems has been of interest over the past decade due to their economical and efficient applications in next-generation display technology and lighting field. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] These systems can consist of metal-free or metallated compounds. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Fundamentally, used compounds in OLED structure have been classified as electron-transporting layers (ETL), [18][19][20] hole-transporting layers (HTL), [18,19] and emissive layers (EL). [18,19] In addition to these layers, there are electron injection layer (EIL), [21,22] electron blocking layer (EBL), [23,24] hole injection layer (HIL), [25,26] and hole blocking layer (HBL) [27,28] between cathode and anode. EL materials are found between ETL and HTL materials and emit light from red to blue depending on the wavelength of the emission. [29][30][31][32][33] N,N 0 -diphenyl-N,N 0 -bis (3-methyl phenyl)-(1,10-biphenyl)-4,4 0 -diamine (TPD) [34][35][36] and tris(8-hydroxyquinolinato)aluminum(III) (Alq3) [37][38][39] are a typical HTL and a ETL material, respectively. While TPD is metal-free molecules, Alq3 is metallated organic molecules. Researchers investigating OLEDs have studies on determining alternative molecules that are superior to these compounds. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] Additionally, color properties of emitter materials in EL layer have been studied. [49][50][51][52] Recently, the scientists have focused on improving the materials having a high charge transfer rate and exhibiting strong emission in the visible region to increase the performance of OLEDs. [53][54][55][56][57][58][59] For this purpose, they have modified the compounds via using the metal or substituent. [15,[60][61][62][63][64] Porphyrin is a planar, aromatic macrocyclic ring consisting of four pyrrole units havin...