Singlet fission: From coherences to kinetics

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2312-2319

  Piland, Geoffrey B ^a   Burdett, Jonathan J ^a   Dillon, Robert J ^a   Bardeen, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; ELECTRONIC BAND; EXCITED SINGLET STATE; SINGLET EXCITONS; SINGLET FISSIONS; SPIN COHERENCE; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TRIPLET EXCITONS;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84903845364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500676c     Document Type: Review

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