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Triazatruxene: A Rigid Central Donor Unit for a D-A3 Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Material Exhibiting Sub-Microsecond Reverse Intersystem Crossing and Unity Quantum Yield via Multiple Singlet-Triplet State Pairs

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  • Paloma L. dos Santos
  • Jonathan S. Ward
  • Daniel G. Congrave
  • Andrei S. Batsanov
  • Julien Eng
  • Jessica E. Stacey
  • Thomas J. Penfold
  • Andrew P. Monkman
  • Martin R. Bryce
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Article number1700989
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/06/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Advanced Science
Issue number6
Volume5
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date16/04/18
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

By inverting the common structural motif of thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials to a rigid donor core and multiple peripheral acceptors, reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) rates are demonstrated in an organic material that enables utilization of triplet excited states at faster rates than Ir-based phosphorescent materials. A combination of the inverted structure and multiple donor–acceptor interactions yields up to 30 vibronically coupled singlet and triplet states within 0.2 eV that are involved in rISC. This gives a significant enhancement to the rISC rate, leading to delayed fluorescence decay times as low as 103.9 ns. This new material also has an emission quantum yield ≈1 and a very small singlet–triplet gap. This work shows that it is possible to achieve both high photoluminescence quantum yield and fast rISC in the same molecule. Green organic light-emitting diode devices with external quantum efficiency >30% are demonstrated at 76 cd m−2.