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 …

A review of grazing incidence small‐and wide‐angle x‐ray scattering techniques for exploring the film morphology of organic solar cells

A Mahmood, JL Wang - Solar RRL, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a rapid evolution of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been achieved by virtue
of structural design of active layer materials and optimization of film morphology. Along with …

Exploring the origin of high optical absorption in conjugated polymers

MS Vezie, S Few, I Meager, G Pieridou, B Dörling… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The specific optical absorption of an organic semiconductor is critical to the performance of
organic optoelectronic devices. For example, higher light-harvesting efficiency can lead to …

A design strategy for intrinsically stretchable high-performance polymer semiconductors: Incorporating conjugated rigid fused-rings with bulky side groups

D Liu, J Mun, G Chen, NJ Schuster… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strategies to improve stretchability of polymer semiconductors, such as introducing flexible
conjugation-breakers or adding flexible blocks, usually result in degraded electrical …

The spectral signatures of Frenkel polarons in H-and J-aggregates

FC Spano - Accounts of chemical research, 2010 - ACS Publications
Electronic excitations in small aggregates, thin films, and crystals of conjugated organic
molecules play a fundamental role in the operation of a wide array of organic-based devices …

Materials and applications for large area electronics: solution-based approaches

AC Arias, JD MacKenzie, I McCulloch, J Rivnay… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
In its most compelling forms, large area electronics addresses a range of applications
outside those where monocrystalline Si and III-V integration are used, or it approaches those …

Advances in charge carrier mobilities of semiconducting polymers used in organic transistors

S Holliday, JE Donaghey, I McCulloch - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this review, we describe and discuss recent advances in the performance of polymeric
semiconductors in organic field effect transistors (OFETs). Design concepts such as short …

Polymers for electronics and spintronics

P Bujak, I Kulszewicz-Bajer, M Zagorska… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review is devoted to semiconducting and high spin polymers which are of great
scientific interest in view of further development of the organic electronics and the emerging …

Role of intermolecular coupling in the photophysics of disordered organic semiconductors: aggregate emission in regioregular polythiophene

J Clark, C Silva, RH Friend, FC Spano - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We address the role of excitonic coupling on the nature of photoexcitations in the conjugated
polymer regioregular poly (3-hexylthiophene). By means of temperature-dependent …

Influence of blend microstructure on bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic performance

CJ Brabec, M Heeney, I McCulloch… - Chemical Society …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of organic photovoltaic devices based upon bulk heterojunction blends of
donor and acceptor materials has been shown to be highly dependent on the thin film …