2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of photon upconverters with high efficiency based on elucidations of the mechanisms that control the efficiency of intermolecular energy transfer
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26709010
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Thermal engineering
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 光アップコンバージョン / 光エネルギー有効利用 / 分子間エネルギー移動 / イオン液体 / 分子回転運動 / エネルギー移動キネティクス / 新規試料開発・探索 / イオノゲル |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In photovoltaics and photocatalysts that convert the solar energy, lights that have longer wavelength than the threshold wavelength of each system is presently unused and wasted. This is because photons with lower energy than the bandgap energy of the material are not absorbed by it. If such unusable below-bandgap photons can be converted to useable above-bandgap photons, this limitation would be avoided. Such conversion that raises incident photon energy is called “photon upconversion (UC)”. This research was carried out to pursue understandings on the dictating mechanism of UC efficiency and to explore and develop new material that exhibit higher UC efficiency.
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| Free Research Field |
分子エネルギー工学
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