What Controls the Orientation of TADF Emitters?

OLEDs TADF emitter orientation emitter-host interaction molecular orientation

Journal

Frontiers in chemistry
ISSN: 2296-2646
Titre abrégé: Front Chem
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101627988

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 10 06 2020
accepted: 21 07 2020
entrez: 26 10 2020
pubmed: 27 10 2020
medline: 27 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Thermally-activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters-just like phosphorescent ones-can in principle allow for 100% internal quantum efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), because the initially formed electron-hole pairs in the non-emissive triplet state can be efficiently converted into emissive singlets by reverse intersystem crossing. However, as compared to phosphorescent emitter complexes with their bulky-often close to spherical-molecular structures, TADF emitters offer the advantage to align them such that their optical transition dipole moments (TDMs) lie preferentially in the film plane. In this report, we address the question which factors control the orientation of TADF emitters. Specifically, we discuss how guest-host interactions may be used to influence this parameter and propose an interplay of different factors being responsible. We infer that emitter orientation is mainly governed by the molecular shape of the TADF molecule itself and by the physical properties of the host-foremost, its glass transition temperature T

Identifiants

pubmed: 33102430
doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00750
pmc: PMC7500207
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

750

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Naqvi, Schmid, Crovini, Sahay, Naujoks, Rodella, Zhang, Strohriegl, Bräse, Zysman-Colman and Brütting.

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Auteurs

Bilal A Naqvi (BA)

Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Markus Schmid (M)

Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Ettore Crovini (E)

Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.

Prakhar Sahay (P)

Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Tassilo Naujoks (T)

Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

Francesco Rodella (F)

Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.

Zhen Zhang (Z)

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Peter Strohriegl (P)

Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.

Stefan Bräse (S)

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Functional Molecular Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.

Eli Zysman-Colman (E)

Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.

Wolfgang Brütting (W)

Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

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