Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Over 17% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells based on an organic molecular donor employing a 2D side chain symmetry breaking strategy

Z Li, X Wang, N Zheng, A Saparbaev… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The symmetry breaking strategy has been broadly applied in the design of organic
photovoltaic materials; however, a comprehensive understanding of the effects of two …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …

17% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells enabled by nanoscale phase separation with a hierarchical branched structure

J Qin, Z Chen, P Bi, Y Yang, J Zhang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
For all small-molecule-based organic solar cells (SM-OSCs), it is very challenging to obtain
a nanoscale bicontinuous network structure in the active layers, so their power conversion …

New method for preparing ZnO layer for efficient and stable organic solar cells

Y Wang, Z Zheng, J Wang, X Liu, J Ren… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to outstanding optoelectronic properties and simple preparation, zinc oxide (ZnO) has
widely been used in organic solar cells (OSCs). Although versatile cathode interface …

A-DA′ DA non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

Q Wei, W Liu, M Leclerc, J Yuan, H Chen… - Science China Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
Since the world-record power conversion efficiency of 15.7% was achieved for organic solar
cells (OSCs) in 2019, the newly developed non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) Y6 with an A-DA …

High miscibility compatible with ordered molecular packing enables an excellent efficiency of 16.2% in all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

L Zhang, X Zhu, D Deng, Z Wang, Z Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells (ASM‐OSCs), a high short‐circuit current (Jsc)
usually needs a small phase separation, while a high fill factor (FF) is generally realized in a …

15.34% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells with an improved fill factor enabled by a fullerene additive

D Hu, Q Yang, H Chen, F Wobben… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution processed organic solar cells (OSCs) composed of all small molecules (ASM) are
promising for production on an industrial scale owing to the properties of small molecules …

Recent progress in all-small-molecule organic photovoltaics

C Xu, Z Zhao, K Yang, L Niu, X Ma, Z Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have the superiorities of light weight, low
cost, easy fabrication, high mechanical flexibility and good semitransparency, enabling great …