Deuteration of Perylene Enhances Photochemical Upconversion Efficiency

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3061-3066

  Danos, Andrew ^a   MacQueen, Rowan W ^a   Cheng, Yuen Yap ^a   Dvořák, Miroslav ^b,d   Darwish, Tamim A ^c   McCamey, Dane R ^a   Schmidt, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Triplet triplet annihilation

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); DEUTERIUM; EFFICIENCY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

DEUTERATIONS; EMITTING SPECIES; EXCITATION REGIME; FIRST-ORDER DECAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ANNIHILATION; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

RATE CONSTANTS;

EID: 84938695462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01271     Document Type: Article

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