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ArticleNano letters2025

Singlet Fission Luminescent Solar Concentrators.

Tomi K Baikie, Jesse Allardice, Simon A Dowland, Pratyush Ghosh, Aaron Li, James Xiao, Géraud Delport, Ashish Sharma, Neil C Greenham, Akshay Rao

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Article in Nano letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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10 authors.

Tomi K BaikieCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-0845-167X
Jesse AllardiceCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-1969-7536
Simon A DowlandCambridge Photon Technology, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Pratyush GhoshCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Aaron LiDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
James XiaoCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Géraud DelportCNRS, Institut Photovoltaïque d'Ile de France (IPVF) UMR 9006, 18 Boulevard Thomas Gobert, 91120 Palaiseau, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3882-2782
Ashish SharmaCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.
Neil C GreenhamCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-2155-2432
Akshay RaoCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-4261-0766

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) present a promising avenue for solar energy harvesting, utilizing transparent matrices embedded with light-absorbing chromophores to concentrate incident solar radiation. Photon-multiplier luminescent solar concentrators (PM-LSCs) contain chromophores boasting over 100% photoluminescence quantum efficiency. Although PM-LSCs may bypass free energy losses observed in traditional LSC systems, experimental PM-LSCs have exhibited optical efficiency sensitivity to photon flux. Here, we demonstrate a PM-LSC utilizing singlet fission (SF), an exciton multiplication process. We apply large-area films of absorbing TIPS-tetracene mixed with tetracene-carboxylic acid-ligated PbS quantum dots and demonstrate they are suitable for solid-state LSC devices. We find that although SF-LSCs present pathways to mitigate fluence limitations observed in quantum cutting systems, challenges persist due to triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) at higher photon fluxes. The potential of SF-LSCs to overcome fluence limitations in PM-LSCs suggests a promising avenue for future development.

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Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC)Photon Multiplication (PM)Singlet Fission (SF)

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PMID41170806
PMCPMC12616784

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