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 …

Singlet fission

MB Smith, J Michl - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In the following we provide a comprehensive review of singlet fission in organic materials.
We first sketch an outline of the underlying theory and then turn to molecular crystals …

Singlet fission in pentacene through multi-exciton quantum states

PM Zimmerman, Z Zhang, CB Musgrave - Nature chemistry, 2010 - nature.com
Multi-exciton generation—the creation of multiple charge carrier pairs from a single photon—
has been reported for several materials and may dramatically increase solar cell efficiency …

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 …

Efficient singlet fission discovered in a disordered acene film

ST Roberts, RE McAnally, JN Mastron… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission is a process that occurs in select organic semiconductors and entails
the splitting of a singlet excited state into two lower triplet excitons located on adjacent …

Down‐conversion materials for organic solar cells: Progress, challenges, and perspectives: Photovoltaics: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Yongfang Li

R Datt, S Bishnoi, HKH Lee, S Arya, S Gupta… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) in terms of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and operational
lifetime have made remarkable progress during the last decade by improving the active …

The nature of singlet exciton fission in carotenoid aggregates

AJ Musser, M Maiuri, D Brida, G Cerullo… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission allows the fast and efficient generation of two spin triplet states from
one photoexcited singlet. It has the potential to improve organic photovoltaics, enabling …

Molecular insights and concepts to engineer singlet fission energy conversion devices

R Casillas, I Papadopoulos, T Ullrich, D Thiel… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Review, we showcase the fundamental processes of intermolecular and
intramolecular singlet fission (SF). Furthermore we prioritize the information, which is …

High-yield singlet fission in a zeaxanthin aggregate observed by picosecond resonance Raman spectroscopy

C Wang, MJ Tauber - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 - ACS Publications
We report high-yield triplet generation by singlet fission upon photoexcitation of a new
aggregate of the carotenoid all-trans 3 R, 3′ R-zeaxanthin. The yield is determined by …

Striking the right balance of intermolecular coupling for high-efficiency singlet fission

RD Pensack, AJ Tilley, C Grieco, GE Purdum… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission is a process that splits collective excitations, or excitons, into two with unity
efficiency. This exciton splitting process, unique to molecular photophysics, has the potential …