UC Riverside chemists’ work on “singlet fission” can
increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
A perspective article published last month by University of
California, Riverside chemists in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters was
selected as an Editors Choice—an honor only a handful of research papers
receive. The perspective reviews the
chemists’ work on “singlet fission,” a process in which a single photon
generates a pair of excited states. This 1->2 conversion process, as it is
known, has the potential to boost solar cell efficiency by as much as 30
percent.