Abstract:

Thermally activated delayed-fluorescence (TADF) materials have attracted wide attention due to the full utilization of triplet and singlet excitons. Beyond the typically donor-acceptor (D-A) TADF compounds, D-π-A-π-D TADF emitters were reported recently. In this paper, we study the dynamic nature of excited states of four D-π-A-π-D TADF molecules with full color emission at the first principle level. It shows that MAC-PN has good TADF efficiency benefiting from the large reverse intersystem crossing (RISC, krisc) and radiative decay (kr) rates. PX-PN and MCZ-DPPN molecules have a reduced TADF efficiency, owing to the largely increased non-radiative decay rate (knr) with two orders of magnitude and decreased krisc, respectively. While PX-CNP has the worst TADF performance, because knr is five orders of magnitude larger than kr. Moreover, reorganization energy analysis reveals that the RISC process is largely manipulated by the torsional vibration of dihedral angle, while the non-radiative process is mainly happened through the channels of bond stretching vibration. These calculations agree well with experimental efficiency trend among the four TADF molecules and uncover the intrinsic TADF mechanisms, providing the possibility to further engineer the molecules with improved TADF efficiency.

链接：https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/tc/d0tc00279h#!divAbstract