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Constructing Organic Phosphorescent Scintillators with Enhanced Triplet Exciton Utilization Through Multi‐Mode Radioluminescence for Efficient X‐Ray Imaging

Huanhuan Li, Yitong Liu, Wei Zhao, Hengyu Cao, Xin Yan, Shuman Zhang, Xi Yan, Hui Li, Ye Tao, Gaozhan Xie, Wei Li, Runfeng Chen, Wei Huang

Advanced Materials· Volume 36· Issue 46

Abstract

Abstract The development of organic phosphorescent scintillators with high exciton utilization efficiency has attracted significant attention but remains a difficult challenge because of the inherent spin‐forbidden feature of X‐ray‐induced triplet excitons. Herein, a design strategy is proposed to develop organic phosphorescent scintillators through thermally activated exciton release to convert stabilized spin‐forbidden triplet excitons to spin‐allowed singlet excitons, which enables singlet exciton‐dominated multi‐mode emission simultaneously from the lowest singlet, triplet, and stabilized triplet states. The resultant scintillators demonstrate a maximum photoluminescence efficiency of 65.8% and a minimum X‐ray radiation detection limit of 110 nGy s−1; this allows efficient radiography imaging with a spatial resolution of ≈10.0 lp mm−1. This study advances the fundamental understanding of exciton dynamics under X‐ray excitation, significantly broadening the practical use of phosphorescent materials for safety‐critical industries and medical diagnostics.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials · Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research · Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications Nanjing 210023 China

Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory Dongguan Guangdong 523808 China

College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications Nanjing 210023 China

Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE) MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLoFE) Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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