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ArticleNature communications2021

Electron spin resonance resolves intermediate triplet states in delayed fluorescence.

Bluebell H Drummond, Naoya Aizawa, Yadong Zhang, William K Myers, Yao Xiong, Matthew W Cooper, Stephen Barlow, Qinying Gu, Leah R Weiss, Alexander J Gillett and 4 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Bluebell H DrummondDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5940-8631
Naoya AizawaRIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Saitama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4673-4512
Yadong ZhangSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
William K MyersCentre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (CAESR), Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5935-9112
Yao XiongSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Matthew W CooperSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3589-8688
Stephen BarlowSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9059-9974
Qinying GuDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Leah R WeissDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Alexander J GillettDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-7333
Dan CredgingtonDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Yong-Jin PuRIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Saitama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3841-2417
Seth R MarderSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Emrys W EvansDepartment of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. emrys.evans@swansea.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9092-3938

Funding

Leverhulme Trust ECF-2019-054RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/L011972/1RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/M005143/1Royal Society URF/R1/201300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular organic fluorophores are currently used in organic light-emitting diodes, though non-emissive triplet excitons generated in devices incorporating conventional fluorophores limit the efficiency. This limit can be overcome in materials that have intramolecular charge-transfer excitonic states and associated small singlet-triplet energy separations; triplets can then be converted to emissive singlet excitons resulting in efficient delayed fluorescence. However, the mechanistic details of the spin interconversion have not yet been fully resolved. We report transient electron spin resonance studies that allow direct probing of the spin conversion in a series of delayed fluorescence fluorophores with varying energy gaps between local excitation and charge-transfer triplet states. The observation of distinct triplet signals, unusual in transient electron spin resonance, suggests that multiple triplet states mediate the photophysics for efficient light emission in delayed fluorescence emitters. We reveal that as the energy separation between local excitation and charge-transfer triplet states decreases, spin interconversion changes from a direct, singlet-triplet mechanism to an indirect mechanism involving intermediate states.

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