Harvesting singlet fission for solar energy conversion via triplet energy transfer

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tritsch, John R ^a,c,d   Chan, Wai Lun ^a,c,d   Wu, Xiaoxi ^b   Monahan, Nicholas R ^b   Zhu, X Y ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHTHALOCYANINE;

ABSORBANCE; ENERGY FLUX; FUEL CELL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PAH; SOLAR POWER;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HARVESTING; IONIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84886853384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3679     Document Type: Article

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