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Obtaining reasonable geometric and electronic structures of excited states is essential for accurately predicting the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) for the application in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Both electronic and geometric factors are evaluated using density functionals for reproducing the vertical emission (EVE(S1)) and singlet-triplet splitting energies (ΔEST) of 28 typical TADF molecules. It is found that most TADF molecules (charge-transfer type) can easily twist upon excitation, indicating the importance of constructing a rigid molecular structure for improving the performance of TADF OLEDs. Functionals with insufficient exact exchange will result in the substantial underestimation of the relaxation energy of T1, suggesting that the hybrid functionals such as B3LYP should not be used. Overall, the best approach for calculating EVE(S1) and EST is the descriptor-tuned LC-ωPBELOL functional combining the CAM-B3LYP-optimized excited-state geometries, which shows mean absolute deviations of 0.21 and 0.10 eV, respectively. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
ISSN: 1932-7447
Year: 2019
Issue: 22
Volume: 123
Page: 13869-13876
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CAS Journal Grade:3
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