Electric Literature of C14H8Br2In 2022 ,《Harnessing near-infrared light via S0 to T1 sensitizer excitation in a molecular photon upconversion solar cell》 was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C: Materials for Optical and Electronic Devices. The article was written by Beery, Drake; Arcidiacono, Ashley; Wheeler, Jonathan P.; Chen, Jiaqi; Hanson, Kenneth. The article contains the following contents:
Integrating mol. photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) directly into a solar cell offers a means of harnessing sub-bandgap, near IR (NIR) photons and surpassing the Shockley-Queisser limit. However, all integrated TTA-UC solar cells to date only harness visible light. Here, we incorporate an osmium polypyridal complex (Os) as the triplet sensitizer in a metal ion linked multilayer photoanode that is capable of harnessing NIR light via S0 to T1* excitation, triple energy transfer to a phosphonated bis(9,10-diphenylethynyl)anthracene annihilator (A), TTA-UC, and electron injection into TiO2 from the upcoverted state. The TiO2-A-Zn-Os devices have five-fold higher photocurrent (∼3.5 μA cm-2) than the sum of their parts. IPCE data and excitation intensity dependent measurements indicate that the NIR photons are harvested through a TTA-UC mechanism. Transient absorption spectroscopy is used to show that the low photocurrent, as compared to visible light harnessing TTA-UC solar cells, can be atributed to: (1) slow sensitizer to annihilator triplet energy transfer, (2) a low injection yield for the annihilator, and (3) fast back energy transfer from the upconverted state to the sensitizer. Regardless, these results serve as a proof-of-concept that NIR photons can be harnessed via an S0 to T1* sensitizer excited, integrated TTA-UC solar cell and that further improvements can readily be made by remedying the performance limiting processes noted above. In addition to this study using 9,10-Dibromoanthracene, there are many other studies that have used 9,10-Dibromoanthracene(cas: 523-27-3Electric Literature of C14H8Br2) was used in this study.
9,10-Dibromoanthracene(cas: 523-27-3) is a dibrominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). 9,10-Dibromoanthracene is often used as an energy acceptor and activator in reactions that produce chemiluminescence.Electric Literature of C14H8Br2
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