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Singlet fission (SF) is a potential pathway for significant enhancement of efficiency in organic solar cells (OSC). In this paper, we study singlet fission in a pair of polyene molecules in two different stacking arrangements employing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Suryoday Prodhan , S. Ramasesha

Singlet fission (SF), an exciton multiplication process occurring in organic semiconductors, offers a way to break the Shockley-Queisser limit in single-bandgap photovoltaics (PV). If the triplet excitons generated by SF can be transferred…

Singlet fission (SF) is an electronic transition that in the last decade has been under the spotlight for its applications in optoelectronics, from photovoltaics to spintronics. Despite considerable experimental and theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Francesco Campaioli , Alice Pagano , Daniel Jaschke , Simone Montangero

Molecular dimers are widely utilized as a tool to investigate the structure-property relationships behind the complex photophysical processes of condensed-phase systems, where structural tuning remains a challenge. This approach often…

Singlet exciton fission (SEF) is initiated by ultrafast internal conversion of a singlet exciton into a correlated triplet pair (TT)1. The `reaction coordinates' for ultrafast SEF even in archetypal systems such as pentacene thin film…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Atandrita Bhattacharyya , Amitav Sahu , Sanjoy Patra , Vivek Tiwari

Molecular spin systems based on photoexcited triplet pairs formed via singlet fission (SF) are attractive as carriers of quantum information because of their potentially pure and controllable spin polarization, but developing systems that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Gajadhar Joshi , Ryan D. Dill , Karl J. Thorley , John E. Anthony , Obadiah G. Reid , Justin C. Johnson

Singlet fission, in which the optical spin-singlet exciton dissociates into two low energy triplet excitons, has been proposed as a viable approach to enhance the quantum efficiency of organic solar cells. We show that even when singlet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-15 K. Aryanpour , J. A. Muñoz , S. Mazumdar

Kinetics of singlet fission in organic semiconductors, in which the excited singlet state (S_1) spontaneously splits into a pair of triplet (T) excitons, is known to be strongly influenced by back geminate annihilation of TT-pairs. We show…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 A. I. Shushin

The electronic interaction between an optically active singlet state ($S_1S_0$) and a dark state of singlet multiplicity, known as correlated triplet pair ($^1[TT]$), plays a crucial role in the effective transformation from $S_1S_0$ to…

In the preceding paper, we assembled the theoretical components necessary for a unified framework of singlet fission, a type of multiexciton generation producing two triplet excitons from one singlet exciton. In this paper, we apply our…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Timothy C. Berkelbach , Mark S. Hybertsen , David R. Reichman

The coherent two-dimensional (2D) electronic spectra with respect to the singlet fission (SF) process in organic molecular aggregates are simulated by the Davydov ansatz combined with the Frenkel-Dirac time-dependent variational algorithm.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Ke-Wei Sun , Yao Yao

We develop a theory of singlet fission in carotenoid dimers. Following photoexcitation of the 'bright' state (i.e., a singlet electron-hole pair) in a single carotenoid, the first step in the singlet fission process is ultrafast…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 William Barford , Cameron A Chambers

High-spin states in molecular systems hold significant interest for a wide range of applications ranging from optoelectronics to quantum information and singlet fission (SF). Quintet and triplet states play crucial roles, particularly in SF…

Singlet fission in tetracene generates two triplet excitons per absorbed photon. If these triplet excitons can be effectively transferred into silicon (Si) then additional photocurrent can be generated from photons above the bandgap of Si.…

Conversion of solar energy with high quantum efficiencies is a key challenge in energy technologies. Excitation energy transfer (EET) mechanisms, such as F\"orster resonance energy transfer (FRET), play a crucial role in facilitating…

A theory of singlet fission in carotenoid dimers is presented which aims to explain the mechanism behind the creation of two uncorrelated triplets. Following the initial photoexcitation of a carotenoid chain to a "bright" $n^1B_u^+$ state,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Alexandru G. Ichert , William Barford

The growing interest in harnessing singlet fission for photovoltaic applications stems from the possibility of generating two excitons from a single photon. Quantum efficiencies above unity have been reported, yet the correlation between…

Singlet fission (SF) is a multi-exciton generation process that could be harnessed to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Experimentally, systems derived from the pentacene molecule have been shown to exhibit ultrafast SF with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 David H. P. Turban , Gilberto Teobaldi , David D. O'Regan , Nicholas D. M. Hine

Precise understanding of the electronic structures of optically dark triplet-triplet multiexcitons that are the intermediate states in singlet fission (SF) continues to be a challenge. This is particularly true for intramolecular singlet…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 Arifa Nazir , Alok Shukla , Sumit Mazumdar

We develop a powerful tree tensor network states method that is capable of simulating exciton-phonon quantum dynamics of larger molecular complexes and open quantum systems with multiple bosonic environments. We interface this method with…