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Radiative and Nonradiative Recombinations in Organic Radical Emitters: The Effect of Guest–Host Interactions

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Radical‐carrying organic molecules have received significant attention to bypass the issue related to harvesting triplet excitons in current light‐emitting materials. While the computational efforts conducted so far have treated these… Click to show full abstract

Radical‐carrying organic molecules have received significant attention to bypass the issue related to harvesting triplet excitons in current light‐emitting materials. While the computational efforts conducted so far have treated these radical emitters as isolated entities, in actual devices, they are embedded in a host matrix and subject to emitter–host interactions. Here, by combining molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations, the impact of the host matrix on the optoelectronic performance of radical emitters is evaluated, taking as a representative example the (4‐ncarbazolyl‐2,6‐dichlorophenyl)bis(2,4,6‐trichlorophenyl)‐methyl (TTM‐3NCz) radical emitter dispersed in a 4,4‐bis(carbazol‐9‐yl)biphenyl (CBP) host. A morphological analysis shows that steric effects around the radical centers, carried by the TTM electron‐poor moieties of the emitters, disfavor π–π interactions with the host molecules, which leads to random intermolecular orientations around the TTM moieties. The 3NCz electron‐rich moieties of the emitters, however, have much lesser spatial hindrance for intermolecular π–π stacking, which modulates the structural and electronic properties of the emitters in the host matrix. The influence of dynamic and static disorders on the radiative and nonradiative recombination processes is also investigated and it is found that the rates of nonradiative recombination are small, which opens the way to 100% internal quantum efficiency for the doublet‐based emission process.

Keywords: nonradiative recombinations; host matrix; radical emitters; host interactions; host; radiative nonradiative

Journal Title: Advanced Functional Materials
Year Published: 2020

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