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 …

Cibalackrot‐type compounds: Stable singlet fission materials with aromatic ground state and excited state

W Zeng, DW Szczepanik… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Singlet fission is a multiexciton generation process, where one singlet exciton is absorbed
and two triplet excitons are produced. The potential of more efficient photovoltaic devices …

Strategies for design of potential singlet fission chromophores utilizing a combination of ground-state and excited-state aromaticity rules

O El Bakouri, JR Smith, H Ottosson - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission photovoltaic technology requires chromophores with their lowest
excited states arranged so that 2 E (T1)< E (S1) and E (S1)< E (T2). Herein, qualitative …

Singlet fission in a pyrrole-fused cross-conjugated skeleton with adaptive aromaticity

L Wang, L Lin, J Yang, Y Wu, H Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission (SF) materials hold the potential to increase the power conversion efficiency
of solar cells by reducing the thermalization of high-energy excited states. The major hurdle …

Energy component analysis for electronically excited states of molecules: why the lowest excited state is not always the HOMO/LUMO transition

P Kimber, F Plasser - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ability to tune excited-state energies is crucial to many areas of molecular design. In
many cases, this is done based on the energies of the highest occupied molecular orbital …

Triplet Formation in a 9, 10-Bis (phenylethynyl) anthracene Dimer and Trimer Occurs by Charge Recombination Rather than Singlet Fission

R Ringström, ZW Schroeder… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an experimental study investigating the solvent-dependent dynamics of a 9, 10-
bis (phenylethynyl) anthracene monomer, dimer, and trimer. Using transient absorption …

Excited state character of Cibalackrot-type compounds interpreted in terms of Hückel-aromaticity: a rationale for singlet fission chromophore design

W Zeng, O El Bakouri, DW Szczepanik, H Bronstein… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The exact energies of the lowest singlet and triplet excited states in organic chromophores
are crucial to their performance in optoelectronic devices. The possibility of utilizing singlet …

Inverse design of tetracene polymorphs with enhanced singlet fission performance by property-based genetic algorithm optimization

R Tom, S Gao, Y Yang, K Zhao, I Bier… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The efficiency of solar cells may be improved by using singlet fission (SF), in which one
singlet exciton splits into two triplet excitons. SF occurs in molecular crystals. A molecule …

Singlet fission rate: Optimized packing of a molecular pair. Ethylene as a model

A Zaykov, P Felkel, EA Buchanan… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A procedure is described for unbiased identification of all π-electron chromophore pair
geometry choices that locally maximize the rate of conversion of a singlet exciton into a …

High-performance solution-processed red hyperfluorescent OLEDs based on cibalackrot

NR Wallwork, M Mamada, A Shukla… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Hyperfluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have allowed remarkable device
performances to be achieved using fluorescent emitters. Superior device performance has …