Multi‐Resonance Deep‐Red Emitters with Shallow Potential‐Energy Surfaces to Surpass Energy‐Gap Law**Show others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ISSN 1433-7851, E-ISSN 1521-3773, Vol. 60, no 37, p. 20498-20503Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Efficient organic emitters in the deep-red region are rare due to the “energy gap law”. Herein, multiple boron (B)- and nitrogen (N)-atoms embedded polycyclic heteroaromatics featuring hybridized π-bonding/ non-bonding molecular orbitals are constructed, providing a way to overcome the above luminescent boundary. The introduction of B-phenyl-B and N-phenyl-N structures enhances the electronic coupling of those para-positioned atoms, forming restricted π-bonds on the phenyl-core for delocalized excited states and thus a narrow energy gap. The mutually ortho-positioned B- and N-atoms also induce a multi-resonance effect on the peripheral skeleton for the non-bonding orbitals, creating shallow potential energy surfaces to eliminate the high-frequency vibrational quenching. The corresponding deep-red emitters with peaks at 662 and 692 nm exhibit narrow full-width at half-maximums of 38 nm, high radiative decay rates of ca. 108 s−1, ≈100 % photo-luminescence quantum yields and record-high maximum external quantum efficiencies of ca. 28 % in a normal planar organic light-emitting diode structure, simultaneously.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley , 2021. Vol. 60, no 37, p. 20498-20503
Keywords [en]
energy gap law, hybridized π-bonding/ non-bonding orbitals, OLEDs, polycyclic heteroaromatics, shallow potential energy surfaces
National Category
Physical Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210908DOI: 10.1002/anie.202107848ISI: 000678178400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85111354579OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-210908DiVA, id: diva2:1927047
2025-01-142025-01-142025-03-07Bibliographically approved