Toward singlet fission for excitonic solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6656, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Michl, Josef ^a   Nozik, Arthur J ^b   Chen, Xudong ^a   Johnson, Justin C ^b   Rana, Geeta ^a   Akdag, Akin ^a   Schwerin, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Intramolecular charge transfer state; Photovoltaic cell; Singlet fission

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; DYES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXCITED STATES; HYDROCARBONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

INTRAMOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER STATE; SINGLET FISSION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 42149134824     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.735591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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