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The book describes emerging strategies to circumvent transmission and thermalization losses in solar cells, and thereby redefine the limits of solar power conversion efficiency. These strategies include the use of organic molecules and rare-earth metal materials. Approaches to augment the efficiency of these processes via near-field enhancement are described as well. This book includes a discussion of state-of-the-art implementations of these emerging strategies in solar cells, both internally, as in molecular intermediate band and charge carrier multiplication, and externally, such as photon up- and down-conversion. Tools for characterization are also provided.  Written by leading researchers in the field, this book can be useful to both beginners and experienced researchers in solar energy.

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Author:   Jonas Sandby Lissau ,  Morten Madsen
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9783030703608

ISBN 10:   3030703606
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   14 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Solar cell e!ciency and routes beyond current limits By Jonas Sandby Lissau and Morten Madsen References Part I: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption via triplet fusion in organic materials 2 Photophysics By Nancy Awwad, Mo Yang, and Felix N. Castellano 3 Near-infrared-to-visible photon upconversion By Nobuhiro Yanai 4 Photon upconversion based on sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation (sTTA) in solids By Angelo Monguzzi 5 Organic triplet photosensitizers for triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion By Zafar Mahmood, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao, Mushraf Hussain, Farhan Sadiq, Noreen Rehmat, and Muhammad Imran 6 Plasmon-enhanced homogeneous and heterogeneous triplet–triplet annihilation By Emily Westbrook, Xian Cao, and Peng Zhang Part II: Molecular oxygen and triplets – photophysics and protective strategies 7 Molecular Oxygen in Photoresponsive Organic Materials By Mikkel Bregnhøj and Peter R. Ogilby 8 Protective Strategies towards Long-term Operation of Annihilation Photon Energy Upconversion By Stanislav Baluschev 9 Additive-assisted stabilization against photooxidation of organic and hybrid solar cells By Michela Prete, Um Kanta Aryal, Jonas Sandby Lissau, Morten Madsen, Vida Turkovic Part III: Implementation of photochemical upconversion in solar cells 10 Optically-coupled Upconversion Solar Cells By Laszlo Frazer and Timothy W. Schmidt 11 Electronically-coupled TTA-UC Solar Cells By Yan Zhou and Kenneth Hanson Part IV: Addressing transmission losses – sequential absorption in rare earth ions 12 Rare-earth ion based photon up-conversion for transmission-loss reduction in solar cells By Hai-Qiao Wang, Andres Osvet, Miroslaw Batentschuk, and Christoph J. Brabec 13 Nanophotonics for photon upconversion enhancement By Wounjhang Park, Ananda Das, and Kyuyoung Bae Part V Addressing thermalisation losses – singlet fission and quantum cutting 14 Singlet fission – mechanisms and molecular design By Victor Gray, Leah Weiss, and Akshay Rao 15 Singlet fission solar cells By Bruno Ehrler

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Morten Madsen is Professor WSR at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where he is heading the organic photovoltaics research group. Jonas Sandby Lissau is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark.

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