Organic luminescent molecule with energetically equivalent singlet and triplet excited states for organic light-emitting diodes

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Jun 14;110(24):247401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.247401. Epub 2013 Jun 10.

Abstract

We demonstrate an organic molecule with an energy gap between its singlet and triplet excited states of almost zero (ΔE(ST) ∼ 0 eV). Such separation was realized through proper combination of an electron-donating indolocarbazole group and a diphenyltriazine electron-accepting moiety. Calculated and measured ΔE(ST) were 0.003 and 0.02 eV, respectively. A total photoluminescence efficiency of 59% ± 2% with 45% ± 2% from a delayed component and 14% ± 2% from a prompt component was obtained for a doped film. Organic light emitting diodes containing this molecule as an emitting dopant exhibited an unexpectedly high external electroluminescence efficiency of η(EQE) = 14% ± 1%.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbazoles / chemistry*
  • Luminescent Measurements / methods*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Photochemical Processes
  • Quantum Theory
  • Thermodynamics
  • Triazenes / chemistry*

Substances

  • Carbazoles
  • Triazenes