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 …

Water binding and hygroscopicity in π-conjugated polyelectrolytes

CG Tang, MN Syafiqah, QM Koh, MCY Ang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The presence of water strongly influences structure, dynamics and properties of ion-
containing soft matter. Yet, the hydration of such matter is not well understood. Here, we …

Improving organic photovoltaic cells by forcing electrode work function well beyond onset of Ohmic transition

C Zhao, CG Tang, ZL Seah, QM Koh, LL Chua… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As electrode work function rises or falls sufficiently, the organic semiconductor/electrode
contact reaches Fermi-level pinning, and then, few tenths of an electron-volt later, Ohmic …

Effects of planarization of the triphenylamine unit on the electronic and transport properties of triarylamine–fluorene copolymers in both doped and undoped forms

QM Koh, NS Mazlan, QJ Seah, JC Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Triarylamine-alt-fluorene (TAF) copolymers are widely used for hole injection and transport
in organic electronics. Despite suggestions to planarize the triphenylamine moiety, little …

Evidence for morphology control by polyelectrolyte templating in PEDT: PSSH

QM Koh, QJ Seah, JC Yang, NS Mazlan… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of research, the fundamental question of structure and morphology of the
poly (3,‐4‐ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrene sulfonate) complex (PEDT: PSS) …

Optimizing the central steric hindrance of cross-linkable hole transport materials for achieving highly efficient RGB QLEDs

W Zhao, L Xie, X Chen, J Hu, W Su, Z Cui - Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cross-linking strategies of hole transport materials (HTMs) have been widely investigated
and used in various optoelectronic devices, mainly owing to their excellent solvent …

Inverted device architecture for high efficiency single-layer organic light-emitting diodes with imbalanced charge transport

X Tan, D Dou, LL Chua, RQ Png, DG Congrave… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Many wide-gap organic semiconductors exhibit imbalanced electron and hole transport,
therefore efficient organic light-emitting diodes require a multilayer architecture of electron …

Double-type-I charge-injection heterostructure for quantum-dot light-emitting diodes

LX Wang, CG Tang, ZS Tan, HY Phua, J Chen… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Enforcing balanced electron–hole injection into the emitter layer of quantum-dot light-
emitting diodes (QLEDs) remains key to maximizing the quantum efficiency over a wide …

Effect of counterion tether length on stability, work function and application of a self-compensated, hole-doped triarylamine-alt-fluorene model polymer

QM Koh, KC Boellaard, Y Wang, CG Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-compensated, hole-doped polymers with ultrahigh workfunction can provide ohmic hole
contacts even for deep-ionization-energy semiconductors. The self-compensation is usually …

Overcoming the water oxidative limit for ultra-high-workfunction hole-doped polymers

QM Koh, CG Tang, MCY Ang, KK Choo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
It is widely thought that the water-oxidation reaction limits the maximum work function to
about 5.25 eV for hole-doped semiconductors exposed to the ambient, constrained by the …