Magnetic-Field Dependence of the Electroluminescence of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: A Competition between Exciton Formation and Spin Mixing

We explore the magnetoelectroluminescence (MEL) of organic light-emitting diodes by evaluating the magnetic-field dependent fraction of singlet excitons formed. We use two- and multisite polaron-hopping models with spin mixing by hyperfine fields and different singlet and triplet exciton formation rates k(S) and k(T). A huge MEL is predicted when exciton formation is in competition with spin mixing and when k(T) is significantly larger than k(S). This competition also leads to a low-field structure in the MEL that is in agreement with recent experiments.