New platinum(II) complex with picolinate (pic) and 2-phenyl naphtothiazole (pntl) ligand as the guest material has been designed and its capability for OLED applications have been examined.Also, we have studied the effects of different substitutions (ie, electron-withdrawing and electron donating groups) on naphtothiazole moiety on optovoltaic characters. We have employed density functional theoretical (B3LYP/DFT) methods to reveal the photophysical and structure properties relationships with the typical host material. The valence MO energies, vertical and adiabatic triplet energy, reorganization energy, and triplet exciton generation fraction (χ T ) have been extensively studied to exploring high phosphorescence efficiency in OLEDs. It has been predicted that substituted systems are good candidates for OLED applications as well as their parent system.DFT, OLED, optovoltaic, photophysics, TD-DFT
| INTRODUCTIONIn the new world, energy is one of the most challenging concerns. It is well established that development of the economy in each country in the world, strongly depends on the energy sources, trends of energy storing or wasting and energy costs. In this regard, the efficiency of converting the electric energy to other types of energy is one of the most important challenges. The organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) [1] have become common in the marketplace for displays and are moving into general lighting applications. [1] Recent improvements have allowed this tremendous progress in light emission. One key component of OLEDs is the light-emitting material, being typically an organic material or a ligand coordinated to metal ions or semimetal-containing fragments. In the case of the organic ligand/ metal ion systems, a variety of solutions have been proposed and proven effective in electroluminescent applications. So far the transition metal such as Ir(III), [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Pt(II), [5,[9][10][11][12][13] and Pd(II) [12,13] have been employed in construction of OLED devices, based on the particular applications, nevertheless the optical parameters of such systems, can be modified optimally by various types of coordinating ligands and metal ions. Any structural alteration significantly changes the ground and excited state wave functions, electronic structure, and excited state dynamics. [14] Particularly, in OLEDs where the organometallic compounds are doped in different layers, the strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) originating from a significant singlet-triplet mixing, [15] results in higher quantum efficiencies. [16][17][18][19] Among these organometallic compounds, Pt(II) complexes have been more attractive in OLED applications, having planar molecular geometries. Also, they have several different highly emissive excited states, including ligand-to-ligand charge transfer (LLCT), excited states, [20] metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited states, [21] oligomeric metal-metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MMLCT), excited states [22] and monomer metal-centered d-d excited states (dd*). [23] Recently, Zh...