Quantum dots for photovoltaics: a tale of two materials

L Duan, L Hu, X Guan, CH Lin, D Chu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum dot (QD) solar cells, benefiting from unique quantum confinement effects and
multiple exciton generation, have attracted great research attention in the past decades …

Mechanistic understanding and rational design of quantum dot/mediator interfaces for efficient photon upconversion

Z Xu, Z Huang, T Jin, T Lian… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The semiconductor-nanocrystal-sensitized, three-component upconversion
system has made great strides over the past 5 years. The three components (ie, triplet …

Photochemical upconversion of near-infrared light from below the silicon bandgap

EM Gholizadeh, SKK Prasad, ZL Teh, T Ishwara… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Photochemical upconversion is a strategy for converting infrared light into more energetic,
visible light, with potential applications ranging from biological imaging and drug delivery to …

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 …

Gold-selenide quantum dots supported onto cesium ferrite nanocomposites for the efficient degradation of rhodamine B

FT Alshorifi, AA Alswat, RS Salama - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
In this work, different weight percentage of gold-selenide quantum dots (AuSe QDs)(1.0, 2.5,
5.0 and 7.0 wt.%) were successfully synthesized and decorated on cesium ferrite …

Efficient photon upconversion enabled by strong coupling between silicon quantum dots and anthracene

K Wang, RP Cline, J Schwan, JM Strain, ST Roberts… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Hybrid structures formed between organic molecules and inorganic quantum dots can
accomplish unique photophysical transformations by taking advantage of their disparate …

Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion

P Xia, EK Raulerson, D Coleman, CS Gerke… - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals interfaced with spin-triplet exciton-accepting organic
molecules have emerged as promising materials for converting incoherent long-wavelength …

Lessons from intramolecular singlet fission with covalently bound chromophores

NV Korovina, NF Pompetti, JC Johnson - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dimers, oligomers, and polymers are versatile components in photophysical and
optoelectronic architectures that could impact a variety of applications. We present a …

Crystalline silicon solar cells with tetracene interlayers: the path to silicon-singlet fission heterojunction devices

RW MacQueen, M Liebhaber, J Niederhausen… - Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet exciton fission is an exciton multiplication process that occurs in certain organic
materials, converting the energy of single highly-energetic photons into pairs of triplet …

Colloidal-ALD-grown metal oxide shells enable the synthesis of photoactive ligand/nanocrystal composite materials

PB Green, OS Lecina, PP Albertini… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) are ideal materials for a variety of applications and devices,
which span from catalysis and optoelectronics to biological imaging. Organic chromophores …