Sosorev, A.Y.; Dominskiy, D.I.; Dubinets, N.O. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Crystals Exhibiting TADF: Insight from Quantum Chemical Calculations. Crystals2023, 13, 55.
Sosorev, A.Y.; Dominskiy, D.I.; Dubinets, N.O. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Crystals Exhibiting TADF: Insight from Quantum Chemical Calculations. Crystals 2023, 13, 55.
Sosorev, A.Y.; Dominskiy, D.I.; Dubinets, N.O. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Crystals Exhibiting TADF: Insight from Quantum Chemical Calculations. Crystals2023, 13, 55.
Sosorev, A.Y.; Dominskiy, D.I.; Dubinets, N.O. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Crystals Exhibiting TADF: Insight from Quantum Chemical Calculations. Crystals 2023, 13, 55.
Abstract
Luminophores featuring thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF luminophores) are the workhorse of the third- and fourth-generation OLEDs. While these compounds had usually been used as dopants embedded in the host, non-doped TADF OLEDs have recently shown significant progress as well reaching the performance comparable to the host-dopant ones. For efficient operation of the non-doped OLEDs, charge transport in neat films and single crystals of TADF luminophores is important; however, this issue was nearly unexplored theoretically. In the current study, we calculated charge mobilities in four TADF single crystals, which have different molecular packing motifs. Specifically, in one of them both donor and acceptor moieties form uniform π-stacks, while in the others donors (acceptors) show alternating lateral shifts along the stacks; the difference in molecular packing results in the difference of transfer integral between the molecules. Reorganization energies differ as well up to four times for the studied crystals. As a result, charge mobilities vary from 0.001 to ~0.3 cm2/(V∙s), the largest being predicted for the crystal of the luminophore consisting of rigid donor and acceptor. We anticipate that the results obtained can be useful for the design of TADF luminophores for non-doped OLEDs, OLETs and other organic light-emitting devices.
Keywords
OLED; charge mobility; DFT; hopping transport; transfer integrals; reorganization energy
Subject
Physical Sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics
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