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 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 …

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 …

Diradicals

M Abe - Chemical Reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Open-shell molecules such as radicals, carbenes, and electronically excited-state molecules
exhibit high energies, and thus, in general, they are quite reactive. 1 The short-lived species …

Real-time observation of multiexcitonic states in ultrafast singlet fission using coherent 2D electronic spectroscopy

AA Bakulin, SE Morgan, TB Kehoe, MWB Wilson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Singlet fission is the spin-allowed conversion of a spin-singlet exciton into a pair of spin-
triplet excitons residing on neighbouring molecules. To rationalize this phenomenon, a …

Quantitative intramolecular singlet fission in bipentacenes

SN Sanders, E Kumarasamy, AB Pun… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission (SF) has the potential to significantly enhance the photocurrent in single-
junction solar cells and thus raise the power conversion efficiency from the Shockley …

A transferable model for singlet-fission kinetics

SR Yost, J Lee, MWB Wilson, T Wu, DP McMahon… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Exciton fission is a process that occurs in certain organic materials whereby one singlet
exciton splits into two independent triplets. In photovoltaic devices these two triplet excitons …