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 π-conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics: solar cells and photodetectors

C Liu, L Shao, S Chen, Z Hu, H Cai, F Huang - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated polymers show promising potential in the application of organic
photovoltaics, including organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) …

19.28% Efficiency and Stable Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Introducing an NIR‐Absorbing Guest Acceptor

Q Fan, R Ma, Z Bi, X Liao, B Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing small‐molecule acceptor (SMA) Y‐SeNF with strong
intermolecular interaction and crystallinity is developed by combining selenophene‐fused …

Asymmetric side-chain substitution enables a 3D network acceptor with hydrogen bond assisted crystal packing and enhanced electronic coupling for efficient organic …

Z Luo, Y Gao, H Lai, Y Li, Z Wu, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Side chain modification on small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) is an effective method to
realize high device efficiencies for organic solar cells (OSCs), among which the asymmetric …

Peripheral halogenation engineering controls molecular stacking to enable highly efficient organic solar cells

Y Zou, H Chen, X Bi, X Xu, H Wang, M Lin… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The diverse molecular stacking tuned by peripheral halogens in non-fullerene acceptors
(NFAs) significantly affects the molecular physicochemical properties, the film morphologies …

Random terpolymer based on thiophene-thiazolothiazole unit enabling efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

J Wu, G Li, J Fang, X Guo, L Zhu, B Guo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Developing a high-performance donor polymer is critical for achieving efficient non-fullerene
organic solar cells (OSCs). Currently, most high-efficiency OSCs are based on a donor …

Fine-tuning energy levels via asymmetric end groups enables polymer solar cells with efficiencies over 17%

Z Luo, R Ma, T Liu, J Yu, Y Xiao, R Sun, G Xie, J Yuan… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Generally, it is important to fine-tune the energy levels of donor and acceptor materials in the
field of polymer solar cell (PSCs) to achieve a minimal highest occupied molecular orbital …

Improving open-circuit voltage by a chlorinated polymer donor endows binary organic solar cells efficiencies over 17%

R Ma, T Liu, Z Luo, Q Guo, Y Xiao, Y Chen, X Li… - Science China …, 2020 - Springer
Power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction polymer solar cells (PSCs) has made a
remarkable breakthrough recently. Plenty of work was reported to achieve PCEs higher than …

A layer-by-layer architecture for printable organic solar cells overcoming the scaling lag of module efficiency

R Sun, Q Wu, J Guo, T Wang, Y Wu, B Qiu, Z Luo… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
To date, organic solar cells (OSCs) with the development of photovoltaic materials have
realized high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) through the solution processing strategy …

Over 14% efficiency all-polymer solar cells enabled by a low bandgap polymer acceptor with low energy loss and efficient charge separation

Q Fan, Q An, Y Lin, Y Xia, Q Li, M Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Obtaining both high open-circuit voltage (Voc) and short-circuit current density (Jsc) has
been a major challenge for efficient all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Herein, we developed …