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 …

The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 19.31% binary organic solar cell and low non-radiative recombination enabled by non-monotonic intermediate state transition

J Fu, PWK Fong, H Liu, CS Huang, X Lu, S Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to
both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination …

Binary organic solar cells with 19.2% efficiency enabled by solid additive

J Wang, Y Wang, P Bi, Z Chen, J Qiao, J Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology optimization is critical for achieving high efficiency and stable bulk‐
heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the use of 3, 5 …

Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

L Zhu, M Zhang, J Xu, C Li, J Yan, G Zhou, W Zhong… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
In organic photovoltaics, morphological control of donor and acceptor domains on the
nanoscale is the key for enabling efficient exciton diffusion and dissociation, carrier transport …

Achieving 19% power conversion efficiency in planar‐mixed heterojunction organic solar cells using a pseudosymmetric electron acceptor

W Gao, F Qi, Z Peng, FR Lin, K Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 19% is realized in planar‐mixed
heterojunction (PMHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) by adopting the asymmetric selenium …

Single‐junction organic solar cells with 19.17% efficiency enabled by introducing one asymmetric guest acceptor

R Sun, Y Wu, X Yang, Y Gao, Z Chen, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been widely identified as an effective approach to obtain high‐
efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). However, for most ternary OSCs, the nonradiative …

Manipulating the D: A interfacial energetics and intermolecular packing for 19.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics

C He, Y Pan, Y Ouyang, Q Shen, Y Gao… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulating the donor: acceptor (D: A) energetics, eg, the highest occupied molecular
orbital (HOMO) offset, is the key to balancing the charge separation and charge …

Realizing 19.05% efficiency polymer solar cells by progressively improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination

K Chong, X Xu, H Meng, J Xue, L Yu, W Ma… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination are critically important
to minimize the loss of absorbed photons and improve the device performance of polymer …