Photon Management for Solar Energy Harvesting with Hybrid Excitonics

Project Information

SOLARX

Grant agreement ID: 758826

DOI

10.3030/758826

Project closed

EC signature date 5 December 2017

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 30 September 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 585,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 585,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Open Research Data Pilot

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Giant photoluminescence enhancement in MoSe 2 monolayers treated with oleic acid ligands

Author(s): Arelo O. A. Tanoh, Jack Alexander-Webber, Ye Fan, Nicholas Gauriot, James Xiao, Raj Pandya, Zhaojun Li, Stephan Hofmann, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nanoscale Advances, 2021, ISSN 2516-0230
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0na01014f

Revealing the potential of luminescent solar concentrators in real-world environments

Author(s): Tomi K. Baikie, Benjamin Daiber, Emil Kensington, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, Bruno Ehrler, Akshay Rao
Published in: Joule, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.01.018

Local symmetry breaking drives picosecond spin domain formation in polycrystalline halide perovskite films

Author(s): Ashoka, Arjun; Nagane, Satyawan; Strkalj, Nives; Sharma, Ashish; Roose, Bart; Sneyd, Alexander J; Sung, Jooyoung; MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L; Stranks, Samuel D; Feldmann, Sascha; Rao, Akshay
Published in: Nature Materials, Issue 31, 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01550-z

Photon upconversion through triplet exciton-mediated energy relays

Author(s): Sanyang Han, Hui Xu, Zhigao Yi, Jiangbin Zhang, Qifei Gu, Liangliang Liang, Xian Qin, Jiahui Xu, Yiming Wu, Artem Bakulin, Akshay Rao and Xiaogang Liu
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23967-3

Efficient Energy Funneling in Spatially Tailored Segmented Conjugated Block Copolymer Nanofiber-Quantum Dot or Rod Conjugates.

Author(s): Yifan Zhang; Huda Shaikh; Alexander J. Sneyd; Jia Tian; James Xiao; Arthur M. Blackburn; Akshay Rao; Richard H. Friend; Ian Manners
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c01571

Quantitative Singlet Fission in Solution-Processable Dithienohexatrienes

Author(s): Kealan J. Fallon, Nipun Sawhney, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Ashish Sharma, Weixuan Zeng, Stephanie Montanaro, Anastasia Leventis, Simon Dowland, Oliver Millington, Daniel Congrave, Andrew Bond, Richard Friend, Akshay Rao, Hugo Bronstein
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPF
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10254

Decoupling excitons from high-frequency vibrations in organic molecules

Author(s): Pratyush Ghosh, Antonios M. Alvertis, Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, Alexander J. Gillett, Shengzhi Dong, Alexander J. Sneyd, Hwan-Hee Cho, Emrys W Evans, Bartomeu Monserrat, Feng Li, Christoph Schnedermann, Hugo Bronstein, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07246-x

Rational Passivation of Sulfur Vacancy Defects in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Author(s): Hope Bretscher, Zhaojun Li, James Xiao, Diana Yuan Qiu, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Jack A. Alexander-Webber, Arelo Tanoh, Ye Fan, Géraud Delport, Cyan A. Williams, Samuel D. Stranks, Stephan Hofmann, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Steven G. Louie, Akshay Rao
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 15/5, 2021, Page(s) 8780-8789, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01220

Direct vs Delayed Triplet Energy Transfer from Organic Semiconductors to Quantum Dots and Implications for Luminescent Harvesting of Triplet Excitons

Author(s): Victor Gray, Jesse R. Allardice, Zhilong Zhang, Simon Dowland, James Xiao, Anthony J. Petty, John E. Anthony, Neil C. Greenham, Akshay Rao
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 14/4, 2020, Page(s) 4224-4234, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09339

Imaging the coherent propagation of collective modes in the excitonic insulator Ta 2 NiSe 5 at room temperature

Author(s): Hope M. Bretscher, Paolo Andrich, Yuta Murakami, Denis Golež, Benjamin Remez, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnagea, Nigel R. Cooper, Andrew J. Millis, Philipp Werner, A. K. Sood, Akshay Rao
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7/28, 2021, Page(s) eabd6147, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6147

Direct observation of ultrafast singlet exciton fission in three dimensions

Author(s): Arjun Ashoka, Nicolas Gauriot, Aswathy V Girija, Nipun Sawhney, Alexander J Sneyd, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature Communcations, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33647-5

Directed Energy Transfer from Monolayer $WS_{2}$ to NIR Emitting PbS-CdS Quantum Dots.

Author(s): Tanoh, Arelo; Gauriot, Nicolas; Delport, Géraud; Xiao, James; Pandya, Raj; Sung, Jooyoung; Allardice, Jesse; Li, Zhaojun; Williams, Cyan; Baldwin, Alan; Stranks, Samuel; Rao, Akshay
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 10, 2020, ISSN 1936-086X
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05818

Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright

Author(s): Sanyang Han, Renren Deng, Qifei Gu, Limeng Ni, Uyen Huynh, Jiangbin Zhang, Zhigao Yi, Baodan Zhao, Hiroyuki Tamura, Anton Pershin, Hui Xu, Zhiyuan Huang, Shahab Ahmad, Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, Aditya Sadhanala, Ming Lee Tang, Artem Bakulin, David Beljonne, Xiaogang Liu, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature, Issue 587/7835, 2020, Page(s) 594-599, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2932-2

Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics in batteries

Author(s): Alice J. Merryweather, Christoph Schnedermann, Quentin Jacquet, Clare P. Grey, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature, Issue 594/7864, 2021, Page(s) 522-528, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03584-2

Engineering Molecular Ligand Shells on Quantum Dots for Quantitative Harvesting of Triplet Excitons Generated by Singlet Fission

Author(s): Jesse R. Allardice, Arya Thampi, Simon Dowland, James Xiao, Victor Gray, Zhilong Zhang, Peter Budden, Anthony J. Petty, Nathaniel J. L. K. Davis, Neil C. Greenham, John E. Anthony, Akshay Rao
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 141/32, 2019, Page(s) 12907-12915, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06584

Enhancing Photoluminescence and Mobilities in WS 2 Monolayers with Oleic Acid Ligands

Author(s): Arelo O. A Tanoh, Jack Alexander-Webber, James Xiao, Géraud Delport, Cyan A. Williams, Hope Bretscher, Nicolas Gauriot, Jesse Allardice, Raj Pandya, Ye Fan, Zhaojun Li, Silvia Vignolini, Samuel D. Stranks, Stephan Hofmann, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 19/9, 2019, Page(s) 6299-6307, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02431

Ultrafast Tracking of Exciton and Charge Carrier Transport in Optoelectronic Materials on the Nanometer Scale

Author(s): Christoph Schnedermann, Jooyoung Sung, Raj Pandya, Sachin Dev Verma, Richard Y. S. Chen, Nicolas Gauriot, Hope M. Bretscher, Philipp Kukura, Akshay Rao
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 10/21, 2019, Page(s) 6727-6733, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02437

Long-range ballistic propagation of carriers in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite thin films

Author(s): Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Limeng Ni, Aditya Sadhanala, Richard Y. S. Chen, Changsoon Cho, Lee Priest, Jong Min Lim, Hyun-Kyung Kim, Bartomeu Monserrat, Philipp Kukura, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature Physics, 2019, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0730-2

Operando visualisation of kinetically-induced lithium heterogeneities in single-particle layered Ni-rich cathodes

Author(s): Chao Xu, Alice J. Merryweather, Shrinidhi S. Pandurangi, Zhengyan Lun, David S. Hall, Vikram S. Deshpande, Norman A. Fleck, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Clare P. Grey
Published in: Joule, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.09.008

Thiol-Anchored TIPS-Tetracene Ligands with Quantitative Triplet Energy Transfer to PbS Quantum Dots and Improved Thermal Stability

Author(s): Victor Gray, Zhilong Zhang, Simon Dowland, Jesse R. Allardice, Antonios M. Alvertis, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, John E. Anthony, Akshay Rao
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 11/17, 2020, Page(s) 7239-7244, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02031

Thermodynamic Limits of Photon-Multiplier Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Author(s): Tomi K Baikie, Arjun Ashoka, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham
Published in: PRX, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/prxenergy.1.033001

Exciton Diffusion in Highly-Ordered One Dimensional Conjugated Polymers: Effects of Back-Bone Torsion, Electronic Symmetry, Phonons and Annihilation

Author(s): Raj Pandya, Antonios M. Alvertis, Qifei Gu, Jooyoung Sung, Laurent Legrand, David Kréher, Thierry Barisien, Alex W. Chin, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, Page(s) 3669-3678, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00193

Ultrafast melting and recovery of collective order in the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5

Author(s): Hope M. Bretscher, Paolo Andrich, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnagea, A. K. Sood, Akshay Rao
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21929-3

Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization

Author(s): Alexander J. Sneyd, Tomoya Fukui, David Palecek, Suryoday Prodhan, Isabella Wagner, Yifan Zhang, Jooyoung Sung, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Liam R. MacFarlane, J. Diego Garcia-Hernandez, Linjun Wang, George R. Whittell, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Kai Chen, David Beljonne, Ian Manners, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao
Published in: Science Advances, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh4232

Microcavity-Like Exciton-Polaritons can be the Primary Photoexcitation in Bare Organic Semiconductors

Author(s): Raj Pandya, Richard Chen, Qifei Gu, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Oluwafemi S Ojambati, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Jeffrey Gorman, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D Onelli, Tom Willhammar, Duncan N Johnstone, Sean M Collins, Paul A Midgley, Florian Auras, Tomi Baikie, Rahul Jayaprakash, Fabrice Mathevet, Richard Soucek, Matthew Du, Silvia Vignolini, David G Lidzey, Jeremy J Baumberg, Richard H Friend, Th
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26617-w

Optical Projection and Spatial Separation of Spin-Entangled Triplet Pairs from the S1 (21 Ag–) State of Pi-Conjugated Systems

Author(s): Raj Pandya, Qifei Gu, Alexandre Cheminal, Richard Y.S. Chen, Edward P. Booker, Richard Soucek, Michel Schott, Laurent Legrand, Fabrice Mathevet, Neil C. Greenham, Thierry Barisien, Andrew J. Musser, Alex W. Chin, Akshay Rao
Published in: Chem, Issue 6/10, 2020, Page(s) 2826-2851, ISSN 2451-9294
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2020.09.011

Operando monitoring of single-particle kinetic state-of-charge heterogeneities and cracking in high-rate Li-ion anodes

Author(s): Alice J. Merryweather, Quentin Jacquet, Steffen P. Emge, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Clare P. Grey
Published in: Nature Materials, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: NPG
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01324-z