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Achieving Highly Efficient Pure Organic Single‐Molecule White‐Light Emitter: The Coenhanced Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Dual Emission by Tailoring Alkoxy Substituents
Author(s) -
Wen Yating,
Liu Haichao,
Zhang Shitong,
Cao Jungang,
De Jianbo,
Yang Bing
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201901995
Subject(s) - phosphorescence , intersystem crossing , alkoxy group , materials science , photochemistry , intermolecular force , photoluminescence , stacking , fluorescence , molecule , singlet state , optoelectronics , chemistry , atomic physics , organic chemistry , alkyl , optics , physics , excited state
Abstract Developing the single‐molecule white‐light emitters (SMWLEs) at room temperature is very challenging for pure organic metal‐free system, and it is even more challenging to achieve the high efficiency of pure organic SMWLE. Here, alkoxy substituents are tailored at 2‐positioned thioxanthone (TX) to finely tune the molecular packing mode and the intermolecular interaction between TX units, and the photoluminescence (PL) efficiency (Φ PL ) of SMWLE is improved successfully from 1.5% (TX) to 45.0% (TX‐OCH(CH 3 ) 2 ). This simultaneous enhancement of dual emission between fluorescence and phosphorescence can be ascribed to i) a moderate intersystem crossing (ISC) rate for the equilibrium distribution between singlet and triplet excitons, ii) simultaneously accelerated radiative rates of singlet and triplet excitons due to J‐aggregation of TX units, and iii) effective suppression of nonradiation through strong hydrogen bond interactions by alkoxy chains. As a result, this work provides a novel molecular design strategy to harvest high‐efficiency pure organic SMWLE using a precise manipulation of π–π stacking mode and intermolecular interaction by tailoring alkoxy substituents.