Advances in Singlet Fission Chromophore Design Enabled by Vibrational Spectroscopies
Abstract
Singlet fission leads to the formation of two separate triplet T1 excitons from an initial singlet S1 exciton through 1(TT) and 1(T...T), multiexcitonic intermediates that retain singlet character. Its ability to achieve external quantum efficiencies higher than 100% made it an attractive candidate for optoelectronic device applications. However, singlet fission has not been applied widely despite having been investigated by a myriad of spectroscopic methods, in part due to our poor understanding of how to optimize molecular structure and packing in chromophores well-suited to large-scale production. Vibrational spectroscopies provide a solution, because they directly probe nuclear motions, allowing us to monitor evolving structural changes in molecules undergoing singlet fission, thus providing us with roadmaps to design molecules suitable for optoelectronic applications. This Perspective reviews the contributions and analyzes the future directions of vibrational spectroscopies to the advancement in our knowledge about the mechanisms and rational designing of chromophores undergoing efficient singlet fission.
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1856840
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1865868; OSTI ID: 1866240
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018203
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 46; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Excitons; Infrared spectroscopy; Molecules; Raman spectroscopy; Chromophores
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Bera, Kajari, Kwang, Siu Yi, and Frontiera, Renee R. Advances in Singlet Fission Chromophore Design Enabled by Vibrational Spectroscopies. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06725.
Bera, Kajari, Kwang, Siu Yi, & Frontiera, Renee R. Advances in Singlet Fission Chromophore Design Enabled by Vibrational Spectroscopies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06725
Bera, Kajari, Kwang, Siu Yi, and Frontiera, Renee R. Tue .
"Advances in Singlet Fission Chromophore Design Enabled by Vibrational Spectroscopies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06725. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1856840.
@article{osti_1856840,
title = {Advances in Singlet Fission Chromophore Design Enabled by Vibrational Spectroscopies},
author = {Bera, Kajari and Kwang, Siu Yi and Frontiera, Renee R.},
abstractNote = {Singlet fission leads to the formation of two separate triplet T1 excitons from an initial singlet S1 exciton through 1(TT) and 1(T...T), multiexcitonic intermediates that retain singlet character. Its ability to achieve external quantum efficiencies higher than 100% made it an attractive candidate for optoelectronic device applications. However, singlet fission has not been applied widely despite having been investigated by a myriad of spectroscopic methods, in part due to our poor understanding of how to optimize molecular structure and packing in chromophores well-suited to large-scale production. Vibrational spectroscopies provide a solution, because they directly probe nuclear motions, allowing us to monitor evolving structural changes in molecules undergoing singlet fission, thus providing us with roadmaps to design molecules suitable for optoelectronic applications. This Perspective reviews the contributions and analyzes the future directions of vibrational spectroscopies to the advancement in our knowledge about the mechanisms and rational designing of chromophores undergoing efficient singlet fission.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06725},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},
number = 46,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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