Photon upconversion for photovoltaics and photocatalysis: a critical review: focus review

BS Richards, D Hudry, D Busko, A Turshatov… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are
reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling factor for the …

Photochemical upconversion: present status and prospects for its application to solar energy conversion

TF Schulze, TW Schmidt - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Towards efficient solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation based photon upconversion: Supramolecular, macromolecular and self-assembled systems

V Gray, K Moth-Poulsen, B Albinsson… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Intermediate band solar cells: Recent progress and future directions

Y Okada, NJ Ekins-Daukes, T Kita, R Tamaki… - Applied physics …, 2015‏ - pubs.aip.org
Extensive literature and publications on intermediate band solar cells (IBSCs) are reviewed.
A detailed discussion is given on the thermodynamics of solar energy conversion in IBSCs …

Recent advances in materials for and applications of triplet–triplet annihilation-based upconversion

SE Seo, HS Choe, H Cho, H Kim, JH Kim… - Journal of Materials …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) has been attracting attention in various
fields as a promising tool to efficiently generate a shorter-wavelength photon than incident …

Triplet–triplet annihilation photon-upconversion: towards solar energy applications

V Gray, D Dzebo, M Abrahamsson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Improving the light-harvesting of amorphous silicon solar cells with photochemical upconversion

YY Cheng, B Fückel, RW MacQueen… - Energy & …, 2012‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Single-threshold solar cells are fundamentally limited by their ability to harvest only those
photons above a certain energy. Harvesting below-threshold photons and re-radiating this …

On the efficiency limit of triplet–triplet annihilation for photochemical upconversion

YY Cheng, T Khoury, RGCR Clady… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Photochemical upconversion is performed, whereby emitter triplet states are produced
through triplet energy transfer from sensitizer molecules excited with low energy photons …

Beyond Shockley–Queisser: molecular approaches to high-efficiency photovoltaics

MJY Tayebjee, DR McCamey… - The journal of physical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

Kinetic analysis of photochemical upconversion by triplet− triplet annihilation: beyond any spin statistical limit

YY Cheng, B Fückel, T Khoury… - The Journal of …, 2010‏ - ACS Publications
Upconversion (UC) via triplet− triplet annihilation (TTA) is a promising concept to improve
the energy conversion efficiency of solar cells by harvesting photons below the energy …