Morphology control in organic solar cells

F Zhao, C Wang, X Zhan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) can directly convert the sunlight into electrical energy and
present some advantages, such as low cost, light weight, flexibility, semitransparency, and …

Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

16.52% Efficiency All‐Polymer Solar Cells with High Tolerance of the Photoactive Layer Thickness

W Zhang, C Sun, I Angunawela, L Meng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) have drawn growing attention and achieved tremendous
progress recently, but their power conversion efficiency (PCE) still lags behind small …

Recent advances in morphology optimization for organic photovoltaics

H Lee, C Park, DH Sin, JH Park, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics are an important part of a next‐generation energy‐harvesting
technology that uses a practically infinite pollutant‐free energy source. They have the …

Simultaneously enhanced efficiency and operational stability of nonfullerene organic solar cells via solid‐additive‐mediated aggregation control

X Zhang, J Cai, C Guo, D Li, B Du, Y Zhuang, S Cheng… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The additive strategy is widely used in optimizing the morphology of organic solar cells
(OSCs). The majority of additives are liquid with high boiling points, which will be trapped …

Acceptor End-Capped Oligomeric Conjugated Molecules with Broadened Absorption and Enhanced Extinction Coefficients for High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells.

L Yuan, K Lu, B Xia, J Zhang, Z Wang… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016 - europepmc.org
Acceptor end-capping of oligomeric conjugated molecules is found to be an effective
strategy for simultaneous spectral broadening, extinction coefficient enhancement, and …

Effect of processing additives on organic photovoltaics: recent progress and future prospects

S Kwon, H Kang, JH Lee, J Lee, S Hong… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the short diffusion length of approximately 10 nm of an exciton in bulk heterojunction
(BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) comprising electron donors and acceptors, a formation with …

A universal processing additive for high-performance polymer solar cells

TH Lee, SY Park, B Walker, SJ Ko, J Heo, HY Woo… - RSC …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To optimize the performance of polymer solar cells, various techniques have been
developed and reported from various research fields. The introduction of processing …

Slot‐die‐coated organic solar cells optimized through multistep crystallization kinetics

J Xu, J Zhan, G Zhou, W Zhong, M Zhang, X Xue… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To fabricate organic solar cells (OSCs) via slot‐die coating, solvent additives are essential to
induce an optimized phase‐separated and order morphology. It is critical to determine the …

Revealing the effect of additives with different solubility on the morphology and the donor crystalline structures of organic solar cells

J Zhao, S Zhao, Z Xu, B Qiao, D Huang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The impact of two kinds of additives, such as 1, 8-octanedithiol (ODT), 1, 8-diiodooctane
(DIO), diphenylether (DPE), and 1-chloronaphthalene (CN), on the performance of poly [(5, 6 …