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 …

Pentacene dimers as a critical tool for the investigation of intramolecular singlet fission

C Hetzer, DM Guldi… - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Singlet fission (SF) involves the spontaneous splitting of a photoexcited singlet state into a
pair of triplets, and it holds great promise toward the realization of more efficient solar cells …

Linker-dependent singlet fission in tetracene dimers

NV Korovina, J Joy, X Feng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Separation of triplet excitons produced by singlet fission is crucial for efficient application of
singlet fission materials. While earlier works explored the first step of singlet fission, the …

Lessons from intramolecular singlet fission with covalently bound chromophores

NV Korovina, NF Pompetti, JC Johnson - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dimers, oligomers, and polymers are versatile components in photophysical and
optoelectronic architectures that could impact a variety of applications. We present a …

Spatial separation of triplet excitons drives endothermic singlet fission

NV Korovina, CH Chang, JC Johnson - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Molecules that undergo singlet fission, converting singlet excitons into pairs of triplet
excitons, have potential as photovoltaic materials. The possible advantages of endothermic …

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 …

Ultra-fast intramolecular singlet fission to persistent multiexcitons by molecular design

AB Pun, A Asadpoordarvish, E Kumarasamy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Singlet fission—that is, the generation of two triplets from a lone singlet state—has recently
resurfaced as a promising process for the generation of multiexcitons in organic systems …

Crystalline silicon solar cells with tetracene interlayers: the path to silicon-singlet fission heterojunction devices

RW MacQueen, M Liebhaber, J Niederhausen… - Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet exciton fission is an exciton multiplication process that occurs in certain organic
materials, converting the energy of single highly-energetic photons into pairs of triplet …

Free-triplet generation with improved efficiency in tetracene oligomers through spatially separated triplet pair states

Z Wang, H Liu, X **e, C Zhang, R Wang, L Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Singlet fission (SF) can potentially boost the efficiency of solar energy conversion by
converting a singlet exciton (S1) into two free triplets (T1+ T1) through an intermediate state …

Singlet fission photovoltaics: Progress and promising pathways

AJ Baldacchino, MI Collins, MP Nielsen… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Singlet fission is a form of multiple exciton generation, which occurs in organic
chromophores when a high-energy singlet exciton separates into two lower energy triplet …