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 …

The dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) require one or more chemical substituents
that can act as an anchor, enabling their adsorption onto a metal oxide substrate. This …

Upconversion of low‐energy photons into high‐energy photons increases the efficiency of
photovoltaic devices by converting photons with energies below the absorption threshold of …

Nowadays, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are the most extensively investigated
systems for the conversion of solar energy into electricity, particularly for implementation in …

Photon upconversion through sensitized Triplet–Triplet Annihilation (TTA-UC) has regained
a lot of interest during the last decade mainly due to its potential for significantly increased …

The spectral mismatch between solar cells and incident radiation is a fundamental factor
limiting their efficiencies. There exist materials and luminescent processes which can modify …

Solar power production and solar energy storage are important research areas for
development of technologies that can facilitate a transition to a future society independent of …

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 …

Low-power upconversion via sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) is a useful and
versatile process that allows for the conversion of optical radiation into photons of higher …

Molecular materials afford abundant flexibility in the tunability of physical and electronic
properties. As such, they are ideally suited to engineering low-cost, flexible, light-harvesting …