Charge transfer-mediated singlet fission

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 601-618

  Monahan, N ^a   Zhu, X Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

dynamics; Mott Wannier exciton; pentacene; quantum coherence; solar energy conversion

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DIMERS; EXCITONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

MOLECULAR MATERIALS; MOTT-WANNIER EXCITON; PENTACENES; QUANTUM COHERENCE; SINGLET EXCITONS; SINGLET FISSIONS; SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSIONS; SPLITTINGS; TRIPLET EXCITONS; WANNIER EXCITONS;

SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 84926460250     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: 15451593     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121235     Document Type: Article

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