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纯红荧烯器件中极化子对的系间窜越与高能三重态激子的反向系间窜越过程“消失”的原因

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.71.20221060

Reasons for “disappearance” phenomenon of both intersystem crossing of polaron-pair states and reverse intersystem crossing of high-lying triplet excitons in pure Rubrene-based OLEDs

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.71.20221060
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  • 有机发光二极管 (OLEDs) 中电致发光磁效应(MEL)是一种能够揭示多种激发态微观过程的探测工具. 最新研究成果(Tang X T, Pan R H, Zhao X, Jia W Y, Wang Y, Ma C H 2020 Adv. Funct. Mater. 5 765)表明: 将低浓度的红荧烯(Rubrene)分子掺杂在一定主体作为发光层的OLEDs中, 存在一种高能三重态激子 (T2,Rub)的反向系间窜越过程(HL-RISC, S1, Rub ← T2,Rub). 但本文发现: 以Rubrene作为纯发光层且其两边的载流子传输层也不存在T2,Rub激子的能量损失通道的OLEDs中, 在室温下只观察到单重态激子 (S1)的分裂过程 (S1+S0 → T1+T1), 却没能观察到该T2,Rub激子的HL-RISC过程; 而且, 最基本的因电子和空穴在纯Rubrene发光层中直接注入形成极化子对 (polaron-pair, PP1和PP3)的系间窜越过程 (ISC, PP1 → PP3)也没有被观察到. 为了揭示该反常现象背后的微观物理机制, 以纯Rubrene分子和质量分数为5%的Rubrene掺杂主体作为发光层来制备器件, 并对两种器件的MEL进行变温实验. 对所得实验结果比对分析后发现: 室温下PP态的ISC和T2,Rub激子的HL-RISC产生的MEL正好完全相互抵消, 这是采用MEL在纯Rubrene作为发光层的OLEDs中同时观察不到ISC和HL-RISC的物理原因, 这种如此巧合的物理现象在文献中还未曾报道.

     

    With unique advantages of high sensitivity, no-contact, and non-destructiveness, magneto-electroluminescence (MEL) is usually employed as an effective detection tool to visualize the microscopic mechanisms of excited states existing in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) because their evolution channels of many spin-pair states in OLEDs have the fingerprint MEL line-shapes even with opposite signs. The recently-published MEL results (Tang X T, Pan R H, Zhao X, Jia W Y, Wang Y, Ma C H 2020 Adv. Funct. Mater. 5 765) have demonstrated the existence of high-level reverse intersystem crossing process (HL-RISC, S1,Rub ← T2,Rub) of high-lying triplet excitons (T2,Rub) in Rubrene when Rubrene with a typical value of several percent in content is doped into a host with high triplet exciton energy and there are no energy loss channels of triplet excitons from charge-carrier transporting layers either. Furthermore, this HL-RISC process can considerably increase the efficiency and brightness of OLEDs operated at room temperature, for example, high external quantum efficiency up to 16.1% and ten thousands of brightness have been achieved in Rubrene-doped OLEDs with a co-host of exciplex. Herein, surprisingly, in the pure Rubrene-based OLEDs (i.e. the pure Rubrene film is used as an emissive layer) with no energy loss channels of triplet excitons from charge-carrier transporting layers, only strong singlet fission (S1,Rub+S0,Rub → T1,Rub+T1,Rub) processes are detected at room temperature, but this HL-RISC process is not observed. Moreover, even the most usual evolution process of intersystem crossing of polaron-pair (ISC, PP1 → PP3) cannot be observed in this pure Rubrene-based OLEDs, where the polaron-pair is generated through the recombination of the injected electrons and holes in the pure Rubrene emissive layer. To determine the cause of the underlying physical mechanism behind this abnormal and fascinating experimental phenomena, two kinds of devices with pure Rubrene and 5% Rubrene-dopant as emissive layers are fabricated and their current- and temperature- dependent MEL responses are systematically investigated. By comparing and analyzing these tremendously different MEL curves of these two types of devices, we find that the positive Lorentzian MEL curves induced from B-mediated ISC of polaron-pair just completely cancel out the negative Lorentzian MEL curves induced from B-mediated HL-RISC process of T2,Rub excitons. Note that such an abnormal and coincidental experimental phenomenon is the physical reason why the ISC process and HL-RISC process cannot be observed simultaneously in the pure Rubrene-based OLEDs, and this phenomenon has not been found in the literature. Clearly, this work further deepeneds our understanding of some unique microscopic processes and physical phenomena in organic semiconductor “star” material of Rubrene (such as the energy resonance between 2T1 and S1 and the energy approach between T2 and S1).

     

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