Molecular photonic wire behavior of electroluminescent materials

ORGN 450

Victor A. Montes, vmontes@bgnet.bgsu.edu and Pavel Anzenbacher Jr., pavel@bgsu.edu. Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, 141 Overman Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403

Energy transfer processes allow for a significant increase in efficiency of organic light-emitting devices by utilizing all excited states generated from electron-hole recombination, in particular non-emissive triplet excitons. Therefore, the preparation of composites, which exhibit triplet energy transfer through molecular photonic wire behavior, could be of practical importance for the fabrication of efficient OLEDs. In this poster, we demonstrate the first example of molecular wire behavior in donor-bridge-acceptor electroluminescent triads, which comprise aluminum tris(8-quinolinolate) as an energy donor (3Alq3 = 2.17 eV), fluorene oligomers as connecting bridge (3OF1-4 = 2.86-2.18 eV), and platinum tetraphenylporphyrin as an energy acceptor (3PtTPP =1.91 eV). Efficient singlet and triplet energy transfer is observed in these systems, which show pure red phosphorescence emission. Furthermore, improved OLED output was obtained for triads having longer oligofluorene bridges showing better alignment of triplet energy levels despite the longer donor-acceptor distance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Reactions and Methodology, Total Synthesis, Materials, Devices and Switches, Lipids, Nucleotides and Mimetics
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Sci-Mix

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007