Light-Harvesting in Photosynthesis

• Authors: H. Scheer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A brief survey is given on the elementary reactions of photosynthesis, with an emphasis on the functional separation into reaction centers that perform, after excitation, an ultrafast charge separation across the photosynthetic membrane, and light-harvesting complexes that absorb light and transfer the excitation energy to the reaction centers. The basic concepts are compared to those of photovoltaics.

Keywords

EN

78.47.da; 87.14.ep; 87.15.M-; 88.40.jr

Discipline

• 88.40.jr: Organic photovoltaics
• 78.47.da: Excited states
• 87.14.ep: Membrane proteins
• 87.15.M-: Spectra of biomolecules

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 122
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 247-251

Dates

published

2012-08

Contributors

author

H. Scheer

• Dept. Biologie I - Botanik, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 München, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.122.247