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Li J, Jin Y, Yu J, Yang W, Zhu T. Accurate Excitation Energies of Point Defects from Fast Particle-Particle Random Phase Approximation Calculations. J Phys Chem Lett 2024:2757-2764. [PMID: 38436573 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
Abstract
We present an efficient particle-particle random phase approximation (ppRPA) approach that predicts accurate excitation energies of point defects, including the nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) and silicon-vacancy (SiV0) centers in diamond and the divacancy center (VV0) in 4H silicon carbide, with errors of ±0.2 eV compared with experimental values. Starting from the (N + 2)-electron ground state calculated with density functional theory (DFT), the ppRPA excitation energies of the N-electron system are calculated as the differences between the two-electron removal energies of the (N + 2)-electron system. We demonstrate that the ppRPA excitation energies converge rapidly with a few hundred canonical active-space orbitals. We also show that active-space ppRPA has weak DFT starting-point dependence and is significantly cheaper than the corresponding ground-state DFT calculation. This work establishes ppRPA as an accurate and low-cost tool for investigating excited-state properties of point defects and opens up new opportunities for applications of ppRPA to periodic bulk materials.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jiachen Li
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Ulukan P, Bas EE, Ozek RB, Dal Kaynak C, Monari A, Aviyente V, Catak S. Computational descriptor analysis on excited state behaviours of a series of TADF and non-TADF compounds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:16167-16182. [PMID: 35748918 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01323a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) behaviours of seventeen organic TADF emitters and two non-TADF chromophores bearing various donor and acceptor moieties were investigated, focusing on their torsion angles, singlet-triplet gap (ΔEST), spin orbit couplings (SOC) and topological ΦS index. Electronic structure calculations were performed in the framework of the Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA) allowing the possible reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) pathways to be characterized. The electronic density reorganization of the excited states was checked also with respect to the different exchange-correlation functional and absorption spectra were obtained by considering vibrational and dynamical effects through Wigner sampling of the ground state equilibrium regions. Examining all the parameters obtained in our computational study, we rationalized the influence of electron-donating and electron-accepting groups and the effects of geometrical factors, especially torsion angles, on a wide class of diverse compounds ultimately providing an easy and computationally effective protocol to assess TADF efficiencies.
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- Pelin Ulukan
- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Université de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France.,Université de Paris and CNRS, Itodys, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Sun X, Peng L, Gao Y, Ye J, Cui G. Theoretical studies on
excited‐state
properties and luminescence mechanism of a
Carbene–Metal–Amide
Au(I) complex with thermally activated delayed fluorescence. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202200193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xin‐Wei Sun
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing PR China
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Zheng M, Li Y, Wei Y, Chen L, Zhou X, Liu S. Determining the Energy Gap between the S 1 and T 1 States of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecular Systems Using Transient Fluorescence Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:2507-2515. [PMID: 35274961 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The energy gap (ΔES-T) between the lowest single and triple excited states is a crucial parameter for thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecular systems with high quantum yield. However, a reliable experimental approach to precisely determine this value is challenging. Here, we introduce a new, simple, and efficient strategy to accurately obtain the ΔES-T in TADF systems from time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy using a recently reported TADF molecule, DMACPDO, as a representative. By introducing an explicit model to describe the corresponding singlet-triplet coupling system, elusive intersystem crossing and reverse intersystem crossing rates can be extracted by fitting the kinetics of the observed fluorescence. The ΔES-T value can then be determined. Moreover, our modeling accurately explained the opposite trend in fluorescence intensity of DMACPDO with solvent polarity under air-saturated and deoxygenated conditions. Additionally, the validity of this approach has been demonstrated in another well-known TADF molecule, 4CzIPN. We demonstrate how this approach of determining ΔES-T sheds light on a deeper understanding of energy-loss mechanisms involved in related photoconversion processes.
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- Min Zheng
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
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- School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Kunze L, Hansen A, Grimme S, Mewes JM. PCM-ROKS for the Description of Charge-Transfer States in Solution: Singlet-Triplet Gaps with Chemical Accuracy from Open-Shell Kohn-Sham Reaction-Field Calculations. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:8470-8480. [PMID: 34449230 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The adiabatic energy gap between the lowest singlet and triplet excited states ΔEST is a central property of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. Since these states are dominated by a charge-transfer character, causing strong orbital-relaxation and environmental effects, an accurate prediction of ΔEST is very challenging, even with modern quantum-chemical excited-state methods. Addressing this major challenge, we present an approach that combines spin-unrestricted (UKS) and restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham (ROKS) self-consistent field calculations with a polarizable-continuum model and range-separated hybrid functionals. Tests on a new representative benchmark set of 27 TADF emitters with accurately known ΔEST values termed STGABS27 reveal a robust and unprecedented performance with a mean absolute deviation of only 0.025 eV (∼0.5 kcal/mol) and few deviations greater than 0.05 eV (∼1 kcal/mol), even in electronically challenging cases. Requiring only two geometry optimizations per molecule at the ROKS/UKS level in a compact double-ζ basis, the approach is computationally efficient and can routinely be applied to molecules with more than 100 atoms.
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- Lukas Kunze
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Beringstraßze 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Beringstraßze 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Beringstraßze 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Beringstraßze 4, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Zheng L, Migliore A, Beratan DN. Electrostatic Field-Induced Oscillator Strength Focusing in Molecules. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:6376-6388. [PMID: 32600048 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The development of light-harvesting devices based on molecular materials depends critically on the ability to focus the electronic oscillator strength of molecules into the UV-vis spectral window. Typical molecular chromophores have only about 1% of their total electronic oscillator strength in this spectral region and thus perform at a small fraction of their possible effectiveness. This theoretical study finds that the electronic oscillator strength of polyenes in the UV-vis region may be enhanced by 1 order of magnitude using electrostatic fields, motivating specific experimental studies of oscillator strength focusing. We find scaling relationships between the polyene length, the intensity of the applied field, and the field-induced increase in oscillator strength that are useful for the implementation of light-harvesting strategies based on polyenes.
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- Lianjun Zheng
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States.,Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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Bannwarth C, Yu JK, Hohenstein EG, Martínez TJ. Hole-hole Tamm-Dancoff-approximated density functional theory: A highly efficient electronic structure method incorporating dynamic and static correlation. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:024110. [PMID: 32668944 DOI: 10.1063/5.0003985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The study of photochemical reaction dynamics requires accurate as well as computationally efficient electronic structure methods for the ground and excited states. While time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is not able to capture static correlation, complete active space self-consistent field methods neglect much of the dynamic correlation. Hence, inexpensive methods that encompass both static and dynamic electron correlation effects are of high interest. Here, we revisit hole-hole Tamm-Dancoff approximated (hh-TDA) density functional theory for this purpose. The hh-TDA method is the hole-hole counterpart to the more established particle-particle TDA (pp-TDA) method, both of which are derived from the particle-particle random phase approximation (pp-RPA). In hh-TDA, the N-electron electronic states are obtained through double annihilations starting from a doubly anionic (N+2 electron) reference state. In this way, hh-TDA treats ground and excited states on equal footing, thus allowing for conical intersections to be correctly described. The treatment of dynamic correlation is introduced through the use of commonly employed density functional approximations to the exchange-correlation potential. We show that hh-TDA is a promising candidate to efficiently treat the photochemistry of organic and biochemical systems that involve several low-lying excited states-particularly those with both low-lying ππ* and nπ* states where inclusion of dynamic correlation is essential to describe the relative energetics. In contrast to the existing literature on pp-TDA and pp-RPA, we employ a functional-dependent choice for the response kernel in pp- and hh-TDA, which closely resembles the response kernels occurring in linear response and collinear spin-flip TDDFT.
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- Christoph Bannwarth
- Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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