Recent advances in triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion and singlet fission, towards solar energy applications

AJ Carrod, V Gray, K Börjesson - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy is an ample renewable energy resource, with photovoltaic (PV) technology
enabling a direct route from light to electricity. Currently, PVs are limited in photon …

Expanded theory of H-and J-molecular aggregates: the effects of vibronic coupling and intermolecular charge transfer

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The electronic excited states of molecular aggregates and their photophysical signatures
have long fascinated spectroscopists and theoreticians alike since the advent of Frenkel …

Organic semiconductor crystals

C Wang, H Dong, L Jiang, W Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of attention since the discovery of highly doped
conductive polymers, due to the potential application in field-effect transistors (OFETs), light …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Triplet pair states in singlet fission

K Miyata, FS Conrad-Burton, FL Geyer… - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This account aims at providing an understanding of singlet fission, ie, the photophysical
process of a singlet state (S1) splitting into two triplet states (2× T1) in molecular …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits
into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the …

Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley–Queisser limit

A Rao, RH Friend - Nature reviews materials, 2017 - nature.com
Singlet exciton fission is a carrier multiplication process in organic semiconductors that
generates two electron–hole pairs for each photon absorbed. Singlet fission occurs on sub …

Recent advances in singlet fission

MB Smith, J Michl - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
A survey is provided of recent progress in the understanding of singlet fission, a spin-
allowed process in which a singlet excited molecule shares its energy with a ground-state …

Singlet fission in pentacene dimers

J Zirzlmeier, D Lehnherr, PB Coto… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Singlet fission (SF) has the potential to supersede the traditional solar energy conversion
scheme by means of boosting the photon-to-current conversion efficiencies beyond the 30 …