Triplet—Triplet Annihilation and Delayed Fluorescence in Molecular Aggregates

This paper deals with triplet—triplet annihilation in pure and mixed organic crystals. In crystals containing a small concentration of impurity traps, triplet excitation migration may proceed from trap to trap on a time scale which is short compared with the long triplet state lifetime but which is long compared with the normal fluorescence lifetime. Nearest‐neighbor and long‐range mutual annihilation of two triplets may then take place giving rise to delayed fluorescence. The rates of long‐range triplet excitation migration and annihilation show a concentration dependence, a temperature dependence, and a solvent dependence. Providing the triplet—triplet annihilation rate is not too fast, the intensity of the delayed fluorescence can be shown to depend upon the square of the intensity of the exciting light. This expectation is borne out by experiments, briefly reported here, on delayed fluorescence in dilute isotopic mixed crystals. In crystals containing high concentrations of such impurity traps, or in ...

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