Carrier-collision-induced formation of charged excitons and ultrafast dynamics fluorescence spectra

J Phys Chem A. 2012 Dec 13;116(49):12089-95. doi: 10.1021/jp310114s. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

Abstract

After a hole injection layer is inserted into a polymer light-emitting material, the injection of positive charge not only easily causes distortion in the conjugated polymer chain but also produces positive polarons. The ultrafast dynamics shows that, when the positive polaron approaches and collides with the triplet exciton, that exciton will become charged, whereby the non-emissive triplet exciton becomes radiative and emits light. Furthermore, the lifetime of the charged triplet exciton is longer than the singlet exciton. This paper explicitly depicts the dynamic fluorescence spectra of the radiative transition of the charged triplet exciton occurring during the decay of the charged exciton, and also exhibits the difference between traditional adiabatic dynamics and non-adiabatic dynamics.