The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

N Gasparini, A Salleo, I McCulloch… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Ternary organic solar cells (TSCs) contain a single three-component photoactive layer with
a wide absorption window, which is obtained without the need for multiple stacks …

Recent advances in morphology optimizations towards highly efficient ternary organic solar cells

X Xu, Y Li, Q Peng - Nano Select, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted considerable attention and have witnessed rapid
progress in the aspects of materials design, device engineering and device physics. Ternary …

Highly efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells operate at near zero highest occupied molecular orbital offsets

S Li, L Zhan, C Sun, H Zhu, G Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein, we investigated a series of fullerene-free organic solar cells (OSCs) based on six
different donor: acceptor (D: A) blends with varied highest occupied molecular orbital …

Semitransparent ternary nonfullerene polymer solar cells exhibiting 9.40% efficiency and 24.6% average visible transmittance

Z Hu, J Wang, Z Wang, W Gao, Q An, M Zhang, X Ma… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Efficient semitransparent ternary polymer solar cells (PSCs) are fabricated with narrow band
gap material PTB7-Th as donor, two narrow band gap nonfullerene materials BDTThIT-4F …

Phthalimide polymer donor guests enable over 17% efficient organic solar cells via parallel‐like ternary and quaternary strategies

W Zhang, J Huang, J Xu, M Han, D Su… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary strategies show over 16% efficiencies with increased current/voltage owing to
complementary absorption/aligned energy level contributions. However, poor understanding …

Recent progress in ternary organic solar cells based on solution-processed non-fullerene acceptors

D Zhou, W You, H Xu, Y Tong, B Hu, Y Xie… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The ternary blending strategy of introducing a third component into binary organic solar cells
(BOSCs) is a feasible and efficient strategy to optimize the performance of BOSCs. Ternary …

Roles of Blend Morphology and Energy Level Alignment in Determining Open‐Circuit Voltage and Fill Factor of Ternary All‐Polymer Solar Cells

Z Liang, H Benten, R Hagio, Y Cho… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tuning the open‐circuit voltage (VOC) and fill factor (FF) without sacrificing the short‐circuit
current density is crucial for achieving performance advantages in ternary blend organic …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying tunneling effects of poly (aryl ether) matrices and boosting the efficiency, stability, and stretchability of organic solar cells

J Han, F Bao, X Wang, D Huang, R Yang… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Tunneling effects are one of the most basic theories that have long been overlooked in the
bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) layers of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, by fabricating BHJ …

Ternary organic solar cells: recent insight on structure–processing–property–performance relationships

R Suthar, H Dahiya, S Karak, GD Sharma - Energy Technology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents recent advances in the ternary organic solar cell (TOSC), such as
technological interventions from the material design to the device performance, which led to …

Reducing energy loss via tuning energy levels of polymer acceptors for efficient all-polymer solar cells

H Sun, B Liu, J Yu, X Zou, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
The open-circuit voltage (V oc) of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) is typically lower than 0.9
V even for the most efficient ones. Large energy loss is the main reason for limiting V oc and …