Extracting Design Principles for Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) from a Simple Four-State Model

18 March 2019, Version 1
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Abstract

We introduce a simple quantum-mechanical model for thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). The Hamiltonian is represented in the basis of four spin-mixed diabatic states representing pure charge transfer (CT) and local excitations (LE). The model predicts that it is possible to realize lowest-lying adiabatic singlet (S1) and triplet (T1) states with a small singlet triplet gap, differing CT/LE contributions, and appreciable LE component in the S1 state. These characteristics can explain the coexistence of fast T1→S1 reverse intersystem crossing and S1→S0 radiative decay in some chromophores. Through the sampling of the parameter space and statistical analysis of the data, we show which parameter combinations contribute the most to the TADF efficiency. We also show that conformational fluctuations of a single model donor-acceptor system sample a significant region of the parameter space and can enhance the TADF rate by almost three orders of magnitude. This study provides new guidelines for optimization of TADF emitters by means of electronic structure and conformation engineering.

Keywords

thermally activated delayed fluorescence
TADF OLED
organic light-emitting diodes
model hamiltonian
exchange couplings
singlet-triplet gap
four-state model

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