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What controls the orientation of TADF emitters?

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Date
04/09/2020
Author
Naqvi, Bilal
Schmid, Markus
Crovini, Ettore
Sahay, Prakhar
Naujoks, Tassilo
Rodella, Francesco
Zhang, Zhen
Strohriegl, Peter
Bräse, Stefan
Zysman-Colman, Eli
Bruetting, Wolfgang
Keywords
OLEDs
TADF
emitter orientation
Molecular orientation
Emitter-Host Interaction
QD Chemistry
DAS
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Abstract
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 Tg and its tendency for alignment being expressed, e.g., as birefringence or the formation of a giant surface potential of the host. Electrostatic dipole-dipole interactions between host and emitter are not found to play an important role.
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Naqvi , B , Schmid , M , Crovini , E , Sahay , P , Naujoks , T , Rodella , F , Zhang , Z , Strohriegl , P , Bräse , S , Zysman-Colman , E & Bruetting , W 2020 , ' What controls the orientation of TADF emitters? ' , Frontiers in Chemistry , vol. 8 , 750 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00750
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Frontiers in Chemistry
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00750
ISSN
2296-2646
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Naqvi, Schmid, Crovini, Sahay, Naujoks, Rodella, Zhang, Strohriegl, Bräse, Zysman-Colman and Brütting. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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This work was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 MSC ITN “TADFlife” (Grant Agreement No. 812872) as well as by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, project no. Br 1728/20-1). ZZ acknowledges the financial support from Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC, 201606890009) for his PhD studies.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20572

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