Recent advances in singlet fission

MB Smith, J Michl - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
A survey is provided of recent progress in the understanding of singlet fission, a spin-
allowed process in which a singlet excited molecule shares its energy with a ground-state …

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 …

Quintet multiexciton dynamics in singlet fission

MJY Tayebjee, SN Sanders, E Kumarasamy… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Singlet fission, in which two triplet excitons are generated from a single absorbed photon, is
a key third-generation solar cell concept. Conservation of angular momentum requires that …

Magnetic field effects in chemical kinetics and related phenomena

UE Steiner, T Ulrich - Chemical Reviews, 1989 - ACS Publications
Although the interest in experimental evidence of magnetic field effects (MFEs) on the
kinetics of chem-ical reactions, which might be characterized by the term “magnetokinetics” …

Excimers

JB Birks - Reports on progress in physics, 1975 - iopscience.iop.org
Excimers are dimers with associated excited electronic states, dissociative ground states,
and structureless emission spectra. Noble and other monatomic gases form atomic …

The structure and dynamics of molecular excitons

CJ Bardeen - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The photophysical behavior of organic semiconductors is governed by their excitonic states.
In this review, I classify the three different exciton types (Frenkel singlet, Frenkel triplet, and …

Exciton delocalization drives rapid singlet fission in nanoparticles of acene derivatives

RD Pensack, AJ Tilley, SR Parkin, TS Lee… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We compare the singlet fission dynamics of five pentacene derivatives precipitated to form
nanoparticles. Two nanoparticle types were distinguished by differences in their solid-state …

Quantum beats in crystalline tetracene delayed fluorescence due to triplet pair coherences produced by direct singlet fission

JJ Burdett, CJ Bardeen - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A detailed analysis of the oscillations seen in the delayed fluorescence of crystalline
tetracene is presented in order to study the mechanism of singlet fission. Three quantum …

Singlet fission for dye-sensitized solar cells: Can a suitable sensitizer be found?

I Paci, JC Johnson, X Chen, G Rana… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We discuss possible improvements in the efficiency of dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells
using dyes capable of singlet fission into two triplets, thus producing two electron− hole pairs …

How morphology affects singlet fission in crystalline tetracene

GB Piland, CJ Bardeen - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
The dependence of exciton dynamics on the crystalline morphology of tetracene is
investigated using time-resolved photoluminescence. Single crystals exhibit relatively slow …