Advanced Materials (FRG) 2011-12-01

The origin of a 650 nm photoluminescence band in rubrene.

Yuanzhen Chen, Bumsu Lee, Danni Fu, Vitaly Podzorov

Index: Adv. Mater. 23(45) , 5370-5, (2011)

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Abstract

Commonly observed variations in photoluminescence (PL) spectra of crystalline organic semiconductors, including the appearance or enhancement of certain PL bands, are shown to originate from a small amount of structural disorder (e.g., amorphous inclusions embedded in a crystal), rather than be necessarily related to chemical impurities or material oxidation. For instance, in rubrene, a minute amount of such disorder can lead to the appearance of a dominant PL band at 650 nm as a result of triplet excitons captured and fused at these sites, with a subsequent emission from the amorphous phase.Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.