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 …

Dynamics of excitons in conjugated molecules and organic semiconductor systems

OP Dimitriev - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

Fast spin-flip enables efficient and stable organic electroluminescence from charge-transfer states

LS Cui, AJ Gillett, SF Zhang, H Ye, Y Liu, XK Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A spin-flip from a triplet to a singlet excited state, that is, reverse intersystem crossing (RISC),
is an attractive route for improving light emission in organic light-emitting diodes, as shown …

Multi-junction solar cells paving the way for super high-efficiency

M Yamaguchi, F Dimroth, JF Geisz… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In order to realize a clean energy society by using renewable energies, high-performance
solar cells are a very attractive proposition. The development of high-performance solar cells …

An organic host–guest system producing room‐temperature phosphorescence at the parts‐per‐billion level

B Chen, W Huang, X Nie, F Liao, H Miao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulation of long‐lived triplet excitons in organic molecules is key to applications
including next‐generation optoelectronics, background‐free bioimaging, information …

Hidden triplet states at hybrid organic–inorganic interfaces

G Bao, R Deng, D Jin, X Liu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Triplet states have been widely studied in phosphorescent molecules, lanthanide complexes
and triplet–triplet annihilation systems, in which they have a critical role in energy transfer …

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 …

Highly luminescent scintillating hetero-ligand MOF nanocrystals with engineered Stokes shift for photonic applications

J Perego, CX Bezuidenhout, I Villa, F Cova… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large Stokes shift fast emitters show a negligible reabsorption of their luminescence, a
feature highly desirable for several applications such as fluorescence imaging, solar-light …

Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures

KK Paul, JH Kim, YH Lee - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

Mechanisms of triplet energy transfer across the inorganic nanocrystal/organic molecule interface

X Luo, Y Han, Z Chen, Y Li, G Liang, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The mechanisms of triplet energy transfer across the inorganic nanocrystal/organic molecule
interface remain poorly understood. Many seemingly contradictory results have been …