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Taking a snapshot of the triplet excited state of an OLED organometallic luminophore using X-rays.

ABSTRACT: OLED technology beyond small or expensive devices requires light-emitters, luminophores, based on earth-abundant elements. Understanding and experimental verification of charge transfer in luminophores are needed for this development. An organometallic multicore Cu complex comprising Cu-C and Cu-P bonds represents an underexplored type of luminophore. To investigate the charge transfer and structural rearrangements in this material, we apply complementary pump-probe X-ray techniques: absorption, emission, and scattering including pump-probe measurements at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL. We find that the excitation leads to charge movement from C- and P- coordinated Cu sites and from the phosphorus atoms to phenyl rings; the Cu core slightly rearranges with 0.05?Å increase of the shortest Cu-Cu distance. The use of a Cu cluster bonded to the ligands through C and P atoms is an efficient way to keep structural rigidity of luminophores. Obtained data can be used to verify computational methods for the development of luminophores.

SUBMITTER: Smolentsev G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195477 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Taking a snapshot of the triplet excited state of an OLED organometallic luminophore using X-rays.

Smolentsev Grigory G Milne Christopher J CJ Guda Alexander A Haldrup Kristoffer K Szlachetko Jakub J Azzaroli Nicolo N Cirelli Claudio C Knopp Gregor G Bohinc Rok R Menzi Samuel S Pamfilidis Georgios G Gashi Dardan D Beck Martin M Mozzanica Aldo A James Daniel D Bacellar Camila C Mancini Giulia F GF Tereshchenko Andrei A Shapovalov Victor V Kwiatek Wojciech M WM Czapla-Masztafiak Joanna J Cannizzo Andrea A Gazzetto Michela M Sander Mathias M Levantino Matteo M Kabanova Victoria V Rychagova Elena E Ketkov Sergey S Olaru Marian M Beckmann Jens J Vogt Matthias M

Nature communications 20200501 1

OLED technology beyond small or expensive devices requires light-emitters, luminophores, based on earth-abundant elements. Understanding and experimental verification of charge transfer in luminophores are needed for this development. An organometallic multicore Cu complex comprising Cu-C and Cu-P bonds represents an underexplored type of luminophore. To investigate the charge transfer and structural rearrangements in this material, we apply complementary pump-probe X-ray techniques: absorption, ...[more]

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Taking a snapshot of the triplet excited state of an OLED organometallic luminophore using X-rays.

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