Designer lighting: a radical approach to improving quantum technologies

The design, prediction and explanation of highly efficient molecules for organic light-emitting diodes and quantum technologies.

My research examines the quantum mechanical motion and structure of small and light particles such as the atoms and electrons in molecules and how physical properties such as absorption and emission spectra can be calculated for them. The research ranges from mathematical methodological development to applications in large multidimensional systems.

My research also examines quantum dynamics and how non-adiabatic processes can be simulated efficiently using classical-like algorithms.

References:

• Efficient radical-based light-emitting diodes with doublet emission, Ai et al, Nature 563 (2018), 536-540 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0695-9
• Understanding the luminescent nature of organic radicals for efficient doublet emitters and pure-red lightemitting diodes A Abdurahman, TJH Hele, et al, Nature Materials 19, 1224-1229 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0705-9
• Singlet and triplet to doublet energy transfer: improving organic light-emitting diodes with radicals, Li et al, Nature Communications 13 2744 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29759-7
• Church, M. S.; Hele, T. J. H.; Ezra, G. S. and Ananth, N., Nonadiabatic semiclassical dynamics in the mixed quantum-classical initial value representation The Journal of Chemical Physics (2018) 148 102326, ; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5005557