High yield ultrafast intramolecular singlet exciton fission in a quinoidal bithiophene

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1375-1384

  Varnavski, Oleg ^a   Abeyasinghe, Neranga ^a   Aragó, Juan ^b   Serrano Pérez, Juan J ^b   Ortí, Enrique ^b   López Navarrete, Juan T ^c   Takimiya, Kazuo ^d   Casanova, David ^e,f,g   Casado, Juan ^c   Goodson, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^g DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intramolecular; Organic photovoltaics; Quinoidal Oligothiophenes; Singlet exciton fission; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; EXCITED STATES; MOLECULES; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTOLYSIS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLET FISSION;

BITHIOPHENE MOLECULES; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; FLUORESCENCE METHOD; INTRAMOLECULAR; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

EXCITONS;

EID: 84927920216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00198     Document Type: Article

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