Effect of charge carrier relaxation during hopping process on electroluminescence in organic solids

TL;DR

This study investigates how energetic disorder and charge carrier relaxation during hopping influence electroluminescence spectra in organic solids, revealing temperature dependence and providing an analytical model.

Contribution

It demonstrates, through simulations and experiments, the impact of energetic disorder on EL spectra and establishes an analytical equation for spectral shift based on transport energy.

Findings

EL spectrum depends on energetic disorder

Spectral shift varies with temperature and disorder

Analytical model for spectral shift established

Abstract

Energetic disorder in disordered organic solids has been found to alter their physical parameters. Here, we have demonstrated, by means of Monte-Carlo simulation and experiments, that the electroluminescence (EL) spectrum is dependent on energetic disorder. This dependence has been attributed to the charge carrier relaxation during hopping process. The dependence of EL spectrum on energetic disorder makes it temperature dependent and temperature dependence has been found to vary with energetic disorder in a variety of materials. The simulation has been performed by taking the relaxation of charge carriers via transport energy in the Gaussian density of states. An analytical equation was established for spectral shift as a function of transport energy.