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 …

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 …

Strongly exchange-coupled triplet pairs in an organic semiconductor

LR Weiss, SL Bayliss, F Kraffert, KJ Thorley… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
From biological complexes to devices based on organic semiconductors, spin interactions
play a key role in the function of molecular systems. For instance, triplet-pair reactions …

Using molecular design to enhance the coherence time of quintet multiexcitons generated by singlet fission in single crystals

RM Jacobberger, Y Qiu, ML Williams… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multiexciton quintet states, 5 (TT), photogenerated in organic semiconductors using singlet
fission (SF), consist of four quantum entangled spins, promising to enable new applications …

The entangled triplet pair state in acene and heteroacene materials

CK Yong, AJ Musser, SL Bayliss, S Lukman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Entanglement of states is one of the most surprising and counter-intuitive consequences of
quantum mechanics, with potent applications in cryptography and computing. In organic …

Photochemical upconversion

J Feng, J Alves, DM de Clercq… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Photochemical upconversion is a process whereby two lower-energy photons are converted
into a higher-energy photon by sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation. While recent interest in …

Spin statistics for triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion: Exchange coupling, intermolecular orientation, and reverse intersystem crossing

DG Bossanyi, Y Sasaki, S Wang, D Chekulaev… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) has great potential to significantly
improve the light harvesting capabilities of photovoltaic cells and is also sought after for …

Triplet-pair states in organic semiconductors

AJ Musser, J Clark - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Entanglement of states is one of the most surprising and counterintuitive consequences of
quantum mechanics, with potent applications in cryptography and computing. In organic …