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  • Photonic materials science
  • Organic electronics
  • Spectroscopy

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  • Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials offer unique long-lived emission for background-free imaging.
  • TADF applications extend beyond organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to photonic markers.
  • Increasing TADF brightness as markers requires attaching strongly-absorbing antennae, like phenylene ethynylene oligomers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of varying oligomer antenna length on TADF material properties.
  • To understand the photophysical mechanisms behind changes in delayed fluorescence upon antenna attachment.
  • To explore the potential of TADF-oligomer conjugates as advanced photonic markers.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis of TADF-oligomer conjugates with systematically varied oligomer lengths.
  • Time-resolved emission spectroscopy to analyze fluorescence decay dynamics.
  • Transient absorption spectroscopy to probe excited-state processes, including triplet states.

Main Results:

  • Energy transfer from the oligomer antenna to the TADF core was confirmed, even with near-resonant absorption.
  • Delayed fluorescence was significantly diminished or "turned-off" with longer oligomer antennae.
  • The observed "turn-off" was attributed to a reduced reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rate, not triplet-triplet energy transfer quenching.

Conclusions:

  • The length of attached phenylene ethynylene oligomers critically impacts the delayed fluorescence efficiency of TADF materials.
  • The primary mechanism for reduced delayed fluorescence is a decrease in the RISC rate, not triplet state quenching.
  • These findings are crucial for designing efficient TADF-based photonic markers and understanding TADF dynamics in OLEDs.