Visible‐to‐UV Photon Upconversion: Recent Progress in New Materials and Applications

M Uji, TJB Zähringer, C Kerzig… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ultraviolet (UV, λ< 400 nm) light is essential for various photochemical reactions,
but its intensity in the solar spectrum is very low, and light sources that artificially generate …

Upconversion luminescent materials: advances and applications

J Zhou, Q Liu, W Feng, Y Sun, F Li - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Luminescence-based techniques continue to attract considerable attention due not only to
their current range of applications but also to their wide potential in the fields of optical …

Approaching the spin-statistical limit in visible-to-ultraviolet photon upconversion

A Olesund, J Johnsson, F Edhborg… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion (TTA-UC) is a process in which triplet
excitons combine to form emissive singlets and holds great promise in biological …

Photochemical upconversion: present status and prospects for its application to solar energy conversion

TF Schulze, TW Schmidt - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
All photovoltaic solar cells transmit photons with energies below the absorption threshold
(bandgap) of the absorber material, which are therefore usually lost for the purpose of solar …

Hybrid molecule–nanocrystal photon upconversion across the visible and near-infrared

Z Huang, X Li, M Mahboub, KM Hanson, VM Nichols… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential
applications in solar energy, biological imaging, and data storage. In this Letter, CdSe and …

Photon upconversion based on sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation

TN Singh-Rachford, FN Castellano - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Photon upconversion, the process wherein light of long wavelength is frequency converted
to photons of higher energy, is readily achieved at low incident power through sensitized …

Photofunctional triplet excited states of cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes: beyond electroluminescence

Y You, W Nam - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes has enabled important breakthroughs
in electroluminescence because such complexes permit the efficient population of triplet …

Triplet–triplet annihilation based upconversion: from triplet sensitizers and triplet acceptors to upconversion quantum yields

J Zhao, S Ji, H Guo - Rsc Advances, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) is a promising upconversion approach due to its low
excitation power density (solar light is sufficient), high upconversion quantum yield, readily …

Diphenylanthracene dimers for triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion: mechanistic insights for intramolecular pathways and the importance of molecular …

A Olesund, V Gray, J Mårtensson… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Novel approaches to modify the spectral output of the sun have seen a surge in interest
recently, with triplet–triplet annihilation driven photon upconversion (TTA-UC) gaining …

Low power, non-coherent sensitized photon up-conversion: modelling and perspectives

A Monguzzi, R Tubino, S Hoseinkhani… - Physical Chemistry …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last few years, non-coherent sensitized photon up-conversion (SUC) in multi-
component systems has been developed to achieve significantly high quantum yields for …