Interfacial materials for organic solar cells: recent advances and perspectives

Z Yin, J Wei, Q Zheng - Advanced Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have shown great promise as low‐cost photovoltaic devices for
solar energy conversion over the past decade. Interfacial engineering provides a powerful …

Small molecule interlayers in organic solar cells

X Li, W Zhang, K Usman, J Fang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides an up‐to‐date review about the small molecule interlayers (SMIs) in
organic solar cells (OSCs). Compared to polymer interlayers, SMIs exhibit intrinsic …

Combining ZnO and PDINO as a thick cathode interface layer for polymer solar cells

W Wang, Z Lin, X Li, C Zhang, T Yang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cathode interface layers (CILs) are important for electron extraction in polymer solar cells
(PSCs). Currently, the thickness of CILs is often below 15 nm due to their low electron …

Investigation of solution-processed ultrathin electron injection layers for organic light-emitting diodes

S Stolz, M Scherer, E Mankel, R Lovrincic… - … Applied Materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We study two types of water/alcohol-soluble aliphatic amines, polyethylenimine (PEI) and
polyethylenimine-ethoxylated (PEIE), for their suitability as electron injection layers in …

Semicrystalline Cathode Interlayer Based on Morphology Control Additives Using Nonconjugated Small‐Molecule Zwitterions for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

J Wen, R Lin, S Wang, HC Hu, H Zhou, Y Xie, Y Wu… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The cathode interlayer (CIL) has significant impact on the performance of organic solar cells
(OSCs), including the abilities to align energy levels, form ohmic contacts between the active …

Fine tuning surface energy of poly (3-hexylthiophene) by heteroatom modification of the alkyl side chains

JB Howard, S Noh, AE Beier, BC Thompson - ACS Macro Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
Recent work has pointed to polymer miscibility and surface energy as key figures of merit in
the formation of organic alloys and synergistic behavior between components in ternary …

Triazine-based polyelectrolyte as an efficient cathode interfacial material for polymer solar cells

N Chakravarthi, UK Aryal, K Gunasekar… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A novel polyelectrolyte containing triazine (TAZ) and benzodithiophene (BDT) scaffolds with
polar phosphine oxide (P O) and quaternary ammonium ions as pendant groups …

Ternary organic solar cells based on ZnO-Ge double electron transport layer with enhanced power conversion efficiency

C Li, X Sun, J Ni, L Huang, R Xu, Z Li, H Cai, J Li… - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A ZnO-Ge bilayer was proposed as an electron transport layer (ETL) in inverted ternary
organic solar cells (OSCs). The energy level alignment, surface morphology, optical and …

An alcohol-soluble perylene diimide derivative as cathode interfacial layer for PDI-based nonfullerene organic solar cells

M Li, J Lv, L Wang, J Liu, X Yu, R Xing, L Wang… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2015 - Elsevier
An organic photovoltaic (OPV) device based on a carbazole-derived copolymer poly [N-9′-
heptadecanyl-2, 7-carbazole-alt-5, 5-(4′, 7′-di-2-thienyl-2′, 1′, 3′-benzothiadiazole)] …

High-performance electron injection layers with a wide processing window from an amidoamine-functionalized polyfluorene

S Stolz, M Petzoldt, S Dück, M Sendner… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this work, we present organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) utilizing a novel amidoamine-
functionalized polyfluorene (PFCON-C) as an electron injection layer (EIL). PFCON-C …