Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Quantitative determination of organic semiconductor microstructure from the molecular to device scale

J Rivnay, SCB Mannsfeld, CE Miller, A Salleo… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Organic semiconductors offer the potential for large-area deposition on substrates of flexible
or unique form factors and can be deposited at ambient conditions at low cost. They can be …

Aggregation‐induced multilength scaled morphology enabling 11.76% efficiency in all‐polymer solar cells using printing fabrication

L Zhu, W Zhong, C Qiu, B Lyu, Z Zhou… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) exhibit excellent stability and readily tunable ink viscosity,
and are therefore especially suitable for printing preparation of large‐scale devices. At …

Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

BA Collins, Z Li, JR Tumbleston, E Gann… - Advanced Energy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of morphology to organic solar cell performance is well known, but to date,
the lack of quantitative, nanoscale and statistical morphological information has hindered …

Molecular miscibility of polymer− fullerene blends

BA Collins, E Gann, L Guignard, X He… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The device function of polymer bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells has been commonly
interpreted to arise from charge separation at discrete interfaces between phase-separated …

Bimolecular crystals of fullerenes in conjugated polymers and the implications of molecular mixing for solar cells

AC Mayer, MF Toney, SR Scully… - Advanced Functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells is heavily influenced
by the interpenetrating nanostructure formed by the two semiconductors because the size of …

Mapping local photocurrents in polymer/fullerene solar cells with photoconductive atomic force microscopy

DC Coffey, OG Reid, DB Rodovsky… - Nano …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The performance of organic solar cells is highly dependent on film morphology. However,
directly correlating local film structures with device performance remains challenging. We …

[HTML][HTML] Photovoltaics from soluble small molecules

MT Lloyd, JE Anthony, GG Malliaras - Materials Today, 2007 - Elsevier
Solution-processable small molecules have attractive features for application in photovoltaic
cells. They offer the facile processing associated with polymers, yet are easier to synthesize …

[HTML][HTML] NEXAFS microscopy and resonant scattering: Composition and orientation probed in real and reciprocal space

H Ade, AP Hitchcock - Polymer, 2008 - Elsevier
Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectromicroscopy, resonant
scattering and resonant reflectivity are specialized, synchrotron radiation based, soft X-ray …

Simultaneous use of small-and wide-angle X-ray techniques to analyze nanometerscale phase separation in polymer heterojunction solar cells

MY Chiu, U Jeng, CH Su, KS Liang, KH Wei - Advanced …, 2008 - ir.lib.nycu.edu.tw
Using grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering and wide-angle X-ray diffraction
techniques to analyze the nanoscale phase separation of P3HT and PCBM after annealing …