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Optical and electronic coupling architectures are two distinct strategies for harnessing photon upconversion via triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA-UC) in a solar cell. The former combines a standard solar cell with an UC film (Chap. 10), while the latter integrates TTA-UC directly into the solar cell. In this chapter we will review the various strategies for integrating TTA-UC into dye-sensitized and layered heterojunction solar cells. These strategies include heterogeneous sensitization, multilayers, metal-organic frameworks, co-deposition, and more. We describe these architectures, note advantages and disadvantages of each, and summarize progress in the field to date. We also discuss the efficiency-limiting factors of current devices and the prospects for integrated TTA-UC solar cells.

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Zhou, Y., Hanson, K. (2022). Electronically Coupled TTA-UC Solar Cells. In: Lissau, J.S., Madsen, M. (eds) Emerging Strategies to Reduce Transmission and Thermalization Losses in Solar Cells. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70358-5_11

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