Cyclometalled Ir(III) compounds are the preferred choice as organic emitters in Organic Light Emitting Diodes. In practice, the presence of the transition metals surrounded by carefully designed ligands allows the fine tuning of the emission frequency as well as a good efficiency of the device. To support the development of new compounds the experimental measurements are generally compared with ab-initio calculation of the absorption and emission spectra. The standard approach for these calculations is TDDFT with hybrid exchange and correlation functional like the B3LYP. Due to the size of these compounds the application of more complex quantum chemistry approaches can be challenging. In this work we used Many Body Perturbation Theory approaches (in particular the GW approximation with the Bethe-Salpeter equation) implemented in gaussian basis sets, to calculate the quasiparticle properties and the adsorption spectra of six cyclometalled Ir(III) complexes going behind TDDFT. In the presented results we compared standard TDDFT simulation with BSE calculations performed on top on perturbative G 0 W 0 and accounting for eigenvalue self consistency. Moreover, in order to investigate in detail the effect of the DFT starting point, we concentrate on Ir(ppy) 3 performing GW-BSE simulations starting from different DFT exchange and correlation potentials.
We review theories of phosphorescence in cyclometalated complexes. We focus primarily on pseudooctahedrally coordinated $t_{2g}^6$ metals (e.g., [Os(II)(bpy)$_3$]$^{2+}$, Ir(III)(ppy)$_3$ and Ir(III)(ptz)$_3$) as, for reasons that are explored in detail, these show particularly strong phosphorescence. We discuss both first principles approaches and semi-empirical models, e.g., ligand field theory. We show that together these provide a clear understanding of the photophysics and in particular the lowest energy triplet excitation, T$_1$. In order to build a good model relativistic effects need t…
We examined the reliability of exchange-correlation functionals for molecular encapsulations combined by van der Waals forces, comparing their predictions with those of diffusion Monte Carlo method. We established that functionals with D3 dispersion force correction and including sufficient proportion of exact-exchange in long-ranged interaction can comparatively reliably estimate the binding strength. Our finding agrees with a previous ab initio study on argon dimer. However we found that even such functionals may not be able to distinguish the energy differences among different conformations…
The synthesis and design of organic biradicals with tunable singlet-triplet gaps has become the subject of significant research interest, owing to their possible photochemical applications and use in the development of molecular switches and conductors. Recently, tetrathiafulvalene tetrathiolate (TTFtt) has been demonstrated to exhibit such organic biradical character in doubly ionized bimetallic complexes. In this article we use high-level {\em ab initio} calculations to interrogate the electronic structure of a series of TTFtt-bridged metal complexes, resolving the factors governing their bi…
Solvent-solute interactions in precursor solutions of lead halide perovskites (LHP) critically impact the quality of solution-processed materials, as they lead to the formation of a variety of poly-iodoplumbates that act as building blocks for LHP. The formation of [PbI$_{2+n}$]$^{n-}$ complexes is often expected in diluted solutions while coordination occurring at high concentrations is not well understood yet. In a combined \textit{ab initio} and experimental work, we demonstrate that the optical spectra of the quasi-one-dimensional iodoplumbate complexes PbI$_2$(DMSO)$_4$, Pb$_2$I$_4$(DMSO)…
Photoactive iridium complexes are of broad interest due to their applications ranging from lighting to photocatalysis. However, the excited state property prediction of these complexes challenges ab initio methods such as time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) both from an accuracy and a computational cost perspective, complicating high throughput virtual screening (HTVS). We instead leverage low-cost machine learning (ML) models to predict the excited state properties of photoactive iridium complexes. We use experimental data of 1,380 iridium complexes to train and evaluate the ML m…
Hydrogen Diffusion in Silicon - An ab initio Study of Hydrogen Kinetic Properties in Silicon
本文采用密度泛函理论计算了硅中氢缺陷的迁移和分解势垒等动力学性质。我们研究了以下缺陷：H原子（H）和离子（H+，H-），氢分子（H2）和氢络合物（H2*）。结果表明，主要的迁移物种是H离子，其电荷无关的迁移势垒为0.46 eV，与实验值[1]非常吻合。在较高的温度下，H2和H2* 分别以1.2和1.5 eV的势垒分解，而H2的迁移势垒为2.2 eV。因此，我们表明，与先前实验暗示的相反[2，3]，在硅中，氢分子不参与通过扩散的氢传输。1. A. Van Wieringen和N. Warmoltz，Physica 22，849（1956）. 2. S.拉奥，S。K. Dianjin，G. Lupke，N. H. Tolk和L. C. Feldman，Physical Review B 75，6（2007）. 3. N. Escherichiata，A. Kasuya和M. Suezawa，Physica B 308，1125（2001）.
The unique electronic and magnetic properties of Lanthanides molecular complexes place them at the forefront of the race towards high-temperature single-ion magnets and magnetic quantum bits. The design of compounds of this class has so far been almost exclusively driven by static crystal field considerations, with emphasis on increasing the magnetic anisotropy barrier. This guideline has now reached its maximum potential and new progress can only come from a deeper understanding of spin-phonon relaxation mechanisms. In this work we compute relaxation times fully ab initio and unveil the natur…
Maximizing the magnetic anisotropy of Dy complexes by fine tuning organic ligands: A systematic multireference high-throughput exploration of over 30k molecules
School of Physics, AMBER and CRANN Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland（都柏林三一学院物理学院、AMBER和CRANN研究所）
Lewis acids like tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane (BCF) offer promising routes for efficient $p$-doping of organic semiconductors. The intriguing experimental results achieved so far call for a deeper understanding of the underlying doping mechanisms. In a first-principles work, based on state-of-the-art density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory, we investigate the electronic and optical properties of donor/acceptor complexes formed by quarterthiophene (4T) doped by BCF. For reference, hexafluorobenzene (C$_6$F$_6$) and BF$_3$ are also investigated as dopants for 4T. Modelling t…
We study from first principles the luminescence of Lu$_2$SiO$_5$:Ce$^{3+}$ (LSO:Ce), a scintillator widely used in medical imaging applications, and establish the crucial role of oxygen vacancies (V$_O$) in the generated spectrum. The excitation energy, emission energy and Stokes shift of its luminescent centers are simulated through a constrained density-functional theory method coupled with a $Δ$SCF analysis of total energies, and compared with experimental spectra. We show that the high-energy emission band comes from a single Ce-based luminescent center, while the large experimental spread…
