Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Interface engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Tang, Y Bai, H Zhao, X Qin, Z Hu, C Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made dramatic advancements during the past decades
owing to the innovative material design and device structure optimization, with power …

Isomerization strategy on a non-fullerene guest acceptor for stable organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency

Z Chen, J Zhu, D Yang, W Song, J Shi, J Ge… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The strategy of isomerization plays a simple and effective role in optimizing the molecular
configurations and improving the performance of binary organic solar cells (OSCs) …

Benzo [d] thiazole based wide bandgap donor polymers enable 19.54% efficiency organic solar cells along with desirable batch‐to‐batch reproducibility and general …

B Pang, C Liao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The limited selection pool of high‐performance wide bandgap (WBG) polymer donors is a
bottleneck problem of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells (OSCs) that …

Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

20.2% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics Employing a π‐Extension Quinoxaline‐Based Acceptor with Ordered Arrangement

Z Chen, J Ge, W Song, X Tong, H Liu, X Yu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells, as a cutting‐edge sustainable renewable energy technology, possess a
myriad of potential applications, while the bottleneck problem of less than 20% efficiency …

Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Y Fu, C Guo, D Li, J Cheng, W Sun… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The photoactive layer of organic solar cells consists of p-type electron donors and n-type
electron acceptors, which phase separate to form fine and continuous networks for charge …

19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

K Liu, Y Jiang, G Ran, F Liu, W Zhang, X Zhu - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The development of high-performance binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with a simplified
working mechanism and fabrication process is highly desirable to promote the commercial …

Embedded Host/Guest Alloy Aggregations Enable High‐Performance Ternary Organic Photovoltaics

X Wang, J Wang, P Wang, C Han, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been intensively studied to improve the power conversion
efficiencies of organic photovoltaics. Thereinto, the location of the guest component plays a …

Restrained energetic disorder for high-efficiency organic solar cells via a solid additive

Z Chen, H Yao, J Wang, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Energetic disorder is one of the major impediments that limits the performance of organic
solar cells (OSCs). Nevertheless, achieving a favorable nanoscale morphology that restricts …