Annihilation limit of a visible-to-UV photon upconversion composition ascertained from transient absorption kinetics

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 117, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 4412-4419

  Deng, Fan ^a   Blumhoff, Jörg ^a   Castellano, Felix N ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-STOKES FLUORESCENCE; DELAYED FLUORESCENCE; PHOSPHORESCENCE QUENCHING; PHOTON UP CONVERSIONS; STERN-VOLMER ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ANNIHILATION; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ENERGY TRANSFER;

ANTHRACENE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; KINETICS; LIGHT SOURCES; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84878368370     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: 15205215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4022618     Document Type: Article

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