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Scharff, Tobias ; Ratzke, Wolfram ; Zipfel, Jonas ; Klemm, Philippe ; Bange, Sebastian ; Lupton, John M.

Complete polarization of electronic spins in OLEDs

Scharff, Tobias, Ratzke, Wolfram, Zipfel, Jonas, Klemm, Philippe, Bange, Sebastian and Lupton, John M. (2021) Complete polarization of electronic spins in OLEDs. Nature Communications 2021 (12), p. 2071.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 08 Dec 2021 05:35
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.51155


Abstract

At low temperatures and high magnetic fields, electron and hole spins in an organic light-emitting diode become polarized so that recombination preferentially forms molecular triplet excited-state species. For low device currents, magnetoelectroluminescence perfectly follows Boltzmann activation, implying a virtually complete polarization outcome. As the current increases, the ...

At low temperatures and high magnetic fields, electron and hole spins in an organic light-emitting diode become polarized so that recombination preferentially forms molecular triplet excited-state species. For low device currents, magnetoelectroluminescence perfectly follows Boltzmann activation, implying a virtually complete polarization outcome. As the current increases, the magnetoelectroluminescence effect is reduced because spin polarization is suppressed by the reduction in carrier residence time within the device. Under these conditions, an additional field-dependent process affecting the spin-dependent recombination emerges, possibly related to the build-up of triplet excitons and their interaction with free charge carriers. Suppression of the EL alone does not prove electronic spin polarization. We therefore probe changes in the spin statistics of recombination directly in a dual singlet-triplet emitting material, which shows a concomitant rise in phosphorescence intensity as fluorescence is suppressed. Finite spin-orbit coupling in these materials gives rise to a microscopic distribution in effective g-factors of electrons and holes, Delta g, i.e., a distribution in Larmor frequencies. This Delta g effect in the pair, which mixes singlet and triplet, further suppresses singlet-exciton formation at high fields in addition to thermal spin polarization of the individual carriers. Though literature reports magnetoelectroluminescence (MEL) affects in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), probing the organic layer's effective spin polarization remains a challenge. Here, the authors utilize dual singlet-triplet emitting OLEDs to reveal the spin polarization in the materials.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleNature Communications
Publisher:Nature
Open Access Type:DEAL (Springer Gold)
Place of Publication:BERLIN
Volume:2021
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:12
Page Range:p. 2071
Date6 April 2021
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Lupton > Group John Lupton
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10.1038/s41467-021-22191-3DOI
KeywordsLIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES; DELTA-G MECHANISM; TRANSIENT ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; DEPENDENT RECOMBINATION; TRIPLET EMITTERS; ULTRAHIGH FIELDS; OVERSHOOT; INJECTION; TRANSPORT; MAGNETORESISTANCE;
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-511550
Item ID51155

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