Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are
reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling factor for the …

The attractive features of lanthanide-doped upconversion luminescence (UCL), such as high
photostability, nonphotobleaching or photoblinking, and large anti-Stokes shift, have shown …

The synthesis of fuels using sunlight offers a promising sustainable solution for chemical
energy storage, but inefficient utilization of the solar spectrum limits its commercial viability …

Currently, the development of circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials has drawn
extensive attention due to the numerous potential applications in optical data storage …

Low-dimensional semiconductors provide a marvelous platform for pursuing versatile
photocatalytic solar energy conversion. Compared with the bulk counterparts, low …

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 …

Organic semiconductor materials have been widely used in various optoelectronic devices
due to their rich optical and/or electrical properties, which are highly related to their excited …

A novel photoelectrochemical (PEC) enzyme immunoassay was designed for the
ultrasensitive detection of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) based on near-infrared (NIR) light-excited …

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 …

Conspectus Photon upconversion based on triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) has
attracted much interest because of its possible applications to renewable energy production …