Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

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 …

Binary organic solar cells breaking 19% via manipulating the vertical component distribution

Y Wei, Z Chen, G Lu, N Yu, C Li, J Gao, X Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The variation of the vertical component distribution can significantly influence the
photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), mainly due to its impact on exciton …

Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Z Bi, W Ma, Z Chen… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The large open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss is currently the main obstacle for pursuing the
highly efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). To address this issue, we construct the ternary …

Achieving record-efficiency organic solar cells upon tuning the conformation of solid additives

C Li, X Gu, Z Chen, X Han, N Yu, Y Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Volatile solid additives (SADs) are considered as a simple yet effective approach to tune the
film morphology for high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the structural …

19.28% Efficiency and Stable Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Introducing an NIR‐Absorbing Guest Acceptor

Q Fan, R Ma, Z Bi, X Liao, B Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing small‐molecule acceptor (SMA) Y‐SeNF with strong
intermolecular interaction and crystallinity is developed by combining selenophene‐fused …

Unidirectional sidechain engineering to construct dual‐asymmetric acceptors for 19.23% efficiency organic solar cells with low energy loss and efficient charge …

Q Fan, R Ma, J Yang, J Gao, H Bai, W Su… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving both high open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc) to
boost power‐conversion efficiency (PCE) is a major challenge for organic solar cells …

Over 19.2% efficiency of organic solar cells enabled by precisely tuning the charge transfer state via donor alloy strategy

J Gao, N Yu, Z Chen, Y Wei, C Li, T Liu, X Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The large energy loss (Eloss) is one of the main obstacles to further improve the photovoltaic
performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), which is closely related to the charge transfer …

Near‐infrared materials: the turning point of organic photovoltaics

D Meng, R Zheng, Y Zhao, E Zhang, L Dou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing organic semiconductors have opened up many
exciting opportunities for organic photovoltaic (OPV) research. For example, new …

Non‐Halogen Solvent Processed Binary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency of 19% and Module Efficiency Over 15% Enabled by Asymmetric Alkyl Chain Engineering

Z Zhong, S Chen, J Zhao, J Xie, K Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The effective molecular design of non‐fullerene acceptors is important to high‐efficiency
organic solar cells. Herein, asymmetric alkyl chain engineering is applied to design a new …