The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

Understanding energy loss in organic solar cells: toward a new efficiency regime

SM Menke, NA Ran, GC Bazan, RH Friend - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Reducing energy and voltage loss is an imperative area of improvement for the design of
organic solar cells (OSCs). Both in the context of charge generation and charge …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Impact of interfacial molecular orientation on radiative recombination and charge generation efficiency

NA Ran, S Roland, JA Love, V Savikhin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A long standing question in organic electronics concerns the effects of molecular orientation
at donor/acceptor heterojunctions. Given a well-controlled donor/acceptor bilayer system …

Entropy and disorder enable charge separation in organic solar cells

SN Hood, I Kassal - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Although organic heterojunctions can separate charges with near-unity efficiency and on a
subpicosecond time scale, the full details of the charge-separation process remain unclear …

What controls the rate of ultrafast charge transfer and charge separation efficiency in organic photovoltaic blends

AC Jakowetz, ML Böhm, J Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In solar energy harvesting devices based on molecular semiconductors, such as organic
photovoltaics (OPVs) and artificial photosynthetic systems, Frenkel excitons must be …

Dynamics of the triplet-pair state reveals the likely coexistence of coherent and incoherent singlet fission in crystalline hexacene

NR Monahan, D Sun, H Tamura, KW Williams, B Xu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The absorption of a photon usually creates a singlet exciton (S1) in molecular systems, but
in some cases S1 may split into two triplets (2× T1) in a process called singlet fission. Singlet …