Singlet exciton fission and triplet exciton relaxation probed with photo-musr

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Singlet exciton fission, a process whereby one high-energy singlet exciton is converted into two lower energy triplet excitons, is an excited state phenomenon with a potential for a huge impact on the efficiency of organic solar cells. As a result, there has been a recent explosion of experimental studies on a variety of molecular materials and fabricated devices. Currently, a detailed microscopic understanding of this process is lacking, partly because there is a lack of direct experimental probes of singlet fission dynamics. This proposal outlines a photo-musr experiment to differentiate between the competing potential mechanisms. Specifically, we will focus on the role, or lack thereof, of charge-transfer (CT). The spatial and temporal resolution of photo-musr enables the quantum mechanical states of the excitons to be probe directly.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47626409
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47626409
Provenance
Creator Dr Koji Yokoyama; Dr Ke Wang; Dr James Lord; Mr Prashantha Murahari; Dr Laura Nuccio; Professor Alan Drew; Dr Francis Pratt; Professor Peter Heathcote; Miss Shuo Han
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-28T00:00:00Z