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 …

Spectral converters for photovoltaics–What's ahead

RAS Ferreira, SFH Correia, A Monguzzi, X Liu… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The effective incorporation of photovoltaic (PV) elements into the urban environment,
specifically in buildings, is a challenging process. Apart from the aesthetic limitations of …

How to Interpret Transient Absorption Data?: An Overview of Case Studies for Application to Organic Solar Cells

Y Tamai, Y Murata, S Natsuda… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is a time‐resolved spectroscopic technique that
can quantitatively observe temporal changes in the absorption spectrum associated with …

Optimizing the efficiency of solar photon upconversion

L Frazer, JK Gallaher, TW Schmidt - ACS Energy Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Low-energy photons, which are not used by a solar cell, can be converted to higher-energy
photons by photon upconversion. The figure-of-merit of upconvertors, J UC, is given in mA …

A new sensitization strategy for achieving organic RTP in aqueous solution: tunable RTP and UC emission in supramolecular TTA-UC systems

L Wei, F Gao, C He, Q He, P Jin, Y Rong, T Zhao… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
Achieving room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) of heavy-atom-free organic molecules
with near-infrared (NIR) emission in solutions is fascinating for medical and biological …

Loss channels in triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion: importance of annihilator singlet and triplet surface shapes

V Gray, A Dreos, P Erhart, B Albinsson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion (TTA-UC) can, through a number of energy
transfer processes, efficiently combine two low frequency photons into one photon of higher …

Boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution via triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion

S Liu, H Liu, Y Hu, C Zhao, H Huang, G Yu, Z Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance the light-harvesting ability of photocatalytic splitting water system, triplet–triplet
annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is integrated with photocatalysis directly for the first time …

Recent advances in the application triplet–triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion systems to solar technologies

J Pedrini, A Monguzzi - Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Upconversion (UC) of low-energy photons into high-energy light can in principle increase
the efficiency of solar devices by converting photons with energies below the energy …

Photocatalytic water-splitting enhancement by sub-bandgap photon harvesting

A Monguzzi, A Oertel, D Braga… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Upconversion is a photon-management process especially suited to water-splitting cells that
exploit wide-bandgap photocatalysts. Currently, such catalysts cannot utilize 95% of the …

Ultrafast singlet exciton fission dynamics in 9, 10-bis (phenylethynyl) anthracene nanoaggregates and thin films

B Manna, A Nandi, R Ghosh - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The possibility of overcoming the Shockley–Queisser limit of organic solar cell (OSC)
efficiency by multiexciton generation through singlet exciton fission has recently attracted …