Purely organic Vis-to-UV upconversion with an excited annihilator singlet beyond 4 eV
Till J. B. Zähringer, Maria‐Sophie Bertrams, Christoph Kerzig
Abstract
Biphenyl at its best: a (triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl group in para position converts biphenyl into a UV annihilator that is successfully employed for blue-to-UV upconversion with unprecedented output photon energies.
Topics & Concepts
Photon upconversionBiphenylAnnihilatorMaterials scienceSinglet stateExcited statePhotochemistryPosition (finance)OptoelectronicsAtomic physicsPhysicsOrganic chemistryChemistryEconomicsAlgebra over a fieldFinancePure mathematicsLuminescenceMathematicsLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchRadical Photochemical Reactions