Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV23)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2023.099
Publication date: 30th March 2023
We and others have recently reported that certain classes of radical organic semiconductors can be used as efficient light emitters in LED devices. Excitation within the doublet manifold can avoid the formation of non-emissive higher spin states and therefore allow efficient radiative electron-hole recombination [1]. We have developed this primarily for use in light-emitting applications, but the avoidance of ‘dark’ low energy excitations (ordinarily triplets) is also very desirable for improved organic photovoltaic devices.
have found that structures where the lowest double excited state involves promotion of an electron from a HOMO level associated with a donor moiety such as carbazole to the radical SOMO level can show very high luminescence yield [2], and we have optimised structures so that it is possible to electrically excite this doublet state, by sequential charge transfer of electron and hole, taking account of the Coulomb charging energy for double occupancy of the SOMO [3]. have also explored the use the radical semiconductor as the emissive ‘guest’ in a regular organic LED emissive layer ‘host’ where the radical semiconductor is able to harvest both singlet and triplet excitons formed in the host material [4]. I will also report on recent studies of intermolecular charge photogeneration in guest-host radical-donor systems.