Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Recent advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

A new polymer donor enables binary all‐polymer organic photovoltaic cells with 18% efficiency and excellent mechanical robustness

J Wang, Y Cui, Y Xu, K Xian, P Bi, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of polymerized small‐molecule acceptors has boosted the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of all‐polymer organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells to 17 …

Enhancing photon utilization efficiency for high‐performance organic photovoltaic cells via regulating phase‐transition kinetics

P Bi, J Wang, Y Cui, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient photon utilization is key to achieving high‐performance organic photovoltaic (OPV)
cells. In this study, a multiscale fibril network morphology in a PBQx‐TCl: PBDB‐TF: eC9 …

Realizing 17.5% efficiency flexible organic solar cells via atomic-level chemical welding of silver nanowire electrodes

G Zeng, W Chen, X Chen, Y Hu, Y Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solution processable flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) are urgently needed to boost the
efficiency and mechanical stability of flexible organic solar cells (OSCs) on a large scale …

Suppressing the energetic disorder of all-polymer solar cells enables over 18% efficiency

T Zhang, Y Xu, H Yao, J Zhang, P Bi, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) usually have a complex blend morphology due to their
higher probability of chain entanglement. Under these conditions, the larger energetic …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Revealing the underlying solvent effect on film morphology in high-efficiency organic solar cells through combined ex situ and in situ observations

R Ma, X Jiang, J Fu, T Zhu, C Yan, K Wu… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The morphological features and the film formation processes in high-performance donor–
acceptor binary photovoltaic blends cast from three representative solvents are carefully …

Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D Xie, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …