Toward over 15% power conversion efficiency for organic solar cells: current status and perspectives

J Zhang, L Zhu, Z Wei - Small Methods, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Significant improvement in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells
(OSCs) is achieved by developing novel donor and acceptor materials, optimizing the phase …

A–π–D–π–A Electron‐Donating Small Molecules for Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells: A Review

Z Wang, L Zhu, Z Shuai, Z Wei - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells based on semiconducting polymers and small molecules have attracted
considerable attention in the last two decades. Moreover, the power conversion efficiencies …

Enhancing performance of large‐area organic solar cells with thick film via ternary strategy

J Zhang, Y Zhao, J Fang, L Yuan, B Xia, G Wang… - Small, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale fabrication of organic solar cells requires an active layer with high thickness
tolerability and the use of environment‐friendly solvents. Thick films with high‐performance …

Small‐Molecule solar cells with simultaneously enhanced short‐circuit current and fill factor to achieve 11% efficiency

L Nian, K Gao, Y Jiang, Q Rong, X Hu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
High‐efficiency small‐molecule‐based organic photovoltaics (SM‐OPVs) using two electron
donors (p‐DTS (FBTTh2) 2 and ZnP) with distinctively different absorption and structural …

Molecular understanding of fullerene–electron donor interactions in organic solar cells

SM Ryno, MK Ravva, X Chen, H Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells hold promise of providing low‐cost, renewable power generation, with
current devices providing up to 13% power conversion efficiency. The rational design of …

Molecular engineering of highly efficient small molecule nonfullerene acceptor for organic solar cells

n Suman, V Gupta, A Bagui… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new molecularly engineered nonfullerene acceptor, 2, 2′‐(5, 5′‐(9, 9‐didecyl‐9H‐
fluorene‐2, 7‐diyl) bis (benzo [c][1, 2, 5] thiadiazole‐7, 4‐diyl) bis (methanylylidene)) bis (3 …

Interfacial engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

B Walker, H Choi, JY Kim - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Interfacial engineering using metal oxides, organic surface modifiers and other materials
can effectively enhance the performance of conventional and inverted organic solar cells by …

Recently developed high-efficiency organic photoactive materials for printable photovoltaic cells: a mini review

HS Vogelbaum, G Sauvé - Synthetic metals, 2017 - Elsevier
Organic photovoltaic materials have the potential to revolutionize the solar energy industry
as they are compatible with printing technologies that produce thin, flexible solar cells. In …

Development of Spiro[cyclopenta[1,2-b:5,4-b′]dithiophene-4,9′-fluorene]-Based A-π-D-π-A Small Molecules with Different Acceptor Units for Efficient Organic …

W Wang, P Shen, X Dong, C Weng… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Three acceptor-π-donor-π-acceptor (A-π-D-π-A) small molecules (STFYT, STFRDN, and
STFRCN) with spiro [cyclopenta [1, 2-b: 5, 4-b′] dithiophene-4, 9′-fluorene](STF) as the …

Coating ZnO nanoparticle films with DNA nanolayers for enhancing the electron extracting properties and performance of polymer solar cells

J Dagar, G Scavia, M Scarselli, S Destri… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we present for the first time polymer solar cells that incorporate biological material that
show state of the art efficiencies in excess of 8%. The performance of inverted polymer solar …