Highly Efficient TADF‐Type Organic Afterglow of Long Emission Wavelengths

Abstract

AbstractDue to the energy gap law, the direct fabrication of efficient organic afterglow materials with long emission wavelengths at ambient conditions remains challenging. Here, luminescent dopants with moderate kRISC values of 100–101 s−1 are designed to harvest triplet energies, simultaneously improving afterglow efficiency and maintaining emission lifetimes >0.1 s. Organic matrices with large dipole moments are selected to populate the triplet excited states of the luminescent dopants and suppress their nonradiative decay and quenching. The dopant‐matrix systems exhibit TADF‐type organic afterglow with quantum efficiency of 20% to 60% and emission wavelengths exceeding 600 nm. Because of their singlet excited state nature, the TADF‐type afterglow emitters can efficiently transfer excited energy to rhodamine B or cyanine 5.5 fluorescence dyes for the construction of red and near‐infrared afterglow materials which display promising bioimaging applications.