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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 30, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202001078
Keywords
guest-host systems; organic laser gain materials; phosphinine; small singlet-triplet energy gap; triplet management
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO, Adachi Molecular Exciton Engineering Project, under JST ERATO, Japan [JPMJER1305]
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Quenching of singlets by long-lived triplets is a serious issue for lasing from organic laser dyes, especially under long pulse excitation. As a strategy to scavenge or manage unnecessary triplets, an organic laser dye is dispersed into a host material having high singlet and low triplet energy levels [a large singlet-triplet energy gap (Delta E-ST)]. However, finding such a host material having a triplet scavenging capability is limited. In this study, an organic laser dye, 2,6-dicyano-1,1-diphenyl-lambda(5)sigma(4)-phosphinine (DCNP), having a small Delta E-ST of approximate to 0.44 eV is synthesized, and thus 4-4 '-bis[(N-carbazole)styryl] biphenyl (BSBCz) can be employed as a triplet scavenging host, i.e., the triplets formed on DCNP are easily transferred to BSBCz. A 1 wt%-DCNP-doped BSBCz film is formed on a mixed-order distributed feedback grating, showing lasing with a low threshold value of approximate to 0.86 mu J cm(-2) and a full-width-at-half-maximum value of approximate to 0.5 nm. Because of the suppressed singlet-triplet annihilation, DCNP-based laser devices operating under a continuous-wave regime, with a low threshold of 72 W cm(-2) and a long laser half-lifetime of approximate to 3 min, are demonstrated. These results indicate a possibility of the wider selection of host materials, easing a material design strategy of fabricating high-performance laser devices in future.
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