Search Results - "Howard, Ian A"
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Photon Upconversion for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis: A Critical Review
Published in Chemical reviews (11-08-2021)“…Opportunities for enhancing solar energy harvesting using photon upconversion are reviewed. The increasing prominence of bifacial solar cells is an enabling…”
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Coated and Printed Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-06-2019)“…Hybrid organic–inorganic metal halide perovskite semiconductors provide opportunities and challenges for the fabrication of low‐cost thin‐film photovoltaic…”
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Record Open‐Circuit Voltage Wide‐Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Utilizing 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure
Published in Advanced energy materials (05-06-2019)“…In this work, the authors realize stable and highly efficient wide‐bandgap perovskite solar cells that promise high power conversion efficiencies (PCE) and are…”
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Effect of Morphology on Ultrafast Free Carrier Generation in Polythiophene:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (27-10-2010)“…Despite significant study, the precise mechanisms that dictate the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells, such as charge separation and recombination, are…”
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Continuous wave amplified spontaneous emission in phase-stable lead halide perovskites
Published in Nature communications (28-02-2019)“…Sustained stimulated emission under continuous-wave (CW) excitation is a prerequisite for new semiconductor materials being developed for laser gain media…”
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Probing the pathways of free charge generation in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
Published in Nature communications (23-05-2018)“…The fact that organic solar cells perform efficiently despite the low dielectric constant of most photoactive blends initiated a long-standing debate regarding…”
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Dual-color dynamic anti-counterfeiting labels with persistent emission after visible excitation allowing smartphone authentication
Published in Scientific reports (08-02-2022)“…A significant impediment to the deployment of anti-counterfeiting technologies is the reliance on specialized hardware. Here, anti-counterfeiting labels are…”
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Photon Upconversion at Crystalline Organic-Organic Heterojunctions
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-10-2016)“…Triplet transfer across a surface‐anchored metal–organic‐framework heterojunction is demonstrated by the observation of triplet–triplet annihilation photon…”
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Guest-responsive polaritons in a porous framework: chromophoric sponges in optical QED cavities
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (14-08-2020)“…Introducing porous material into optical cavities is a critical step toward the utilization of quantum-electrodynamical (QED) effects for advanced…”
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Ultrafast Exciton Dissociation Followed by Nongeminate Charge Recombination in PCDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blends
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (22-06-2011)“…The precise mechanism and dynamics of charge generation and recombination in bulk heterojunction polymer:fullerene blend films typically used in organic…”
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The Effect of Solvent Additives on Morphology and Excited-State Dynamics in PCPDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blends
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (27-06-2012)“…The dependence of the thin film morphology and excited-state dynamics for the low-bandgap donor–acceptor copolymer…”
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Anisotropic energy transfer in crystalline chromophore assemblies
Published in Nature communications (18-10-2018)“…An ideal material for photon harvesting must allow control of the exciton diffusion length and directionality. This is necessary in order to guide excitons to…”
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Effect of Nongeminate Recombination on Fill Factor in Polythiophene/Methanofullerene Organic Solar Cells
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (16-12-2010)“…A key factor in solar cell efficiency is the dependence of the photocurrent on applied bias. With respect to organic solar cells, it is often suggested that…”
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Tuning Optical Properties by Controlled Aggregation: Electroluminescence Assisted by Thermally‐Activated Delayed Fluorescence from Thin Films of Crystalline Chromophores
Published in Chemistry : a European journal (18-12-2020)“…Several photophysical properties of chromophores depend crucially on intermolecular interactions. Thermally‐activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is often…”
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Vacuum‐Assisted Growth of Low‐Bandgap Thin Films (FA0.8MA0.2Sn0.5Pb0.5I3) for All‐Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells
Published in Advanced energy materials (01-02-2020)“…All‐perovskite multijunction photovoltaics, combining a wide‐bandgap (WBG) perovskite top solar cell (EG ≈1.6–1.8 eV) with a low‐bandgap (LBG) perovskite…”
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Correlated Donor/Acceptor Crystal Orientation Controls Photocurrent Generation in All-Polymer Solar Cells
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-07-2014)“…New polymers with high electron mobilities have spurred research in organic solar cells using polymeric rather than fullerene acceptors due to their potential…”
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Experimental validation of a modeling framework for upconversion enhancement in 1D-photonic crystals
Published in Nature communications (04-01-2021)“…Photonic structures can be designed to tailor luminescence properties of materials, which becomes particularly interesting for non-linear phenomena, such as…”
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Nonequilibrium Charge Dynamics in Organic Solar Cells
Published in Advanced energy materials (01-06-2014)“…The dynamics of charge carriers after their creation at, or near, an interface play a critical role in determining the efficiency of organic solar cells as…”
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Polythiophene:Perylene Diimide Solar Cells - the Impact of Alkyl-Substitution on the Photovoltaic Performance
Published in Advanced energy materials (18-03-2011)“…The photovoltaic parameters, i.e., the short‐circuit current, open‐circuit voltage and device fill factor, of bulk heterojunction solar cells that use perylene…”
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A de novo strategy for predictive crystal engineering to tune excitonic coupling
Published in Nature communications (03-05-2019)“…In molecular solids, the intense photoluminescence (PL) observed for solvated dye molecules is often suppressed by nonradiative decay processes introduced by…”
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