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3. Near-Infrared-to-Visible Photon Upconversion

Authors : Yoichi Sasaki, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka

Published in: Emerging Strategies to Reduce Transmission and Thermalization Losses in Solar Cells

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One of the promising methods to overcome the Shockley-Queisser limit in solar energy conversion is triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion (TTA-UC) from near-infrared (NIR, > 700 nm) light to visible (Vis, < 700 nm) light. However, it had been difficult to achieve efficient NIR-to-Vis TTA-UC mainly due to the absence of appropriate triplet sensitizers with less or no energy loss associated with intersystem crossing (ISC). In this chapter, we overview recent successful examples of NIR-to-Vis TTA-UC based on the developments of new NIR-absorbing triplet sensitizers, such as semiconductor nanocrystals with small singlet-triplet exchange splitting and Os complexes with direct singlet-to-triplet (S-T) absorption.

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Title: Near-Infrared-to-Visible Photon Upconversion
Authors: Yoichi Sasaki
Nobuhiro Yanai
Nobuo Kimizuka
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Emerging Strategies to Reduce Transmission and Thermalization Losses in Solar Cells
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70357-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70358-5

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70358-5_3