Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

Models and mechanisms of ternary organic solar cells

M Günther, N Kazerouni, D Blätte, JD Perea… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), three different components are mixed to form the
photoactive layer, opening up opportunities to boost the power conversion efficiency—for …

Enhancing photon utilization efficiency for high‐performance organic photovoltaic cells via regulating phase‐transition kinetics

P Bi, J Wang, Y Cui, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient photon utilization is key to achieving high‐performance organic photovoltaic (OPV)
cells. In this study, a multiscale fibril network morphology in a PBQx‐TCl: PBDB‐TF: eC9 …

[HTML][HTML] Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

The energy level conundrum of organic semiconductors in solar cells

J Bertrandie, J Han, CSP De Castro… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The frontier molecular energy levels of organic semiconductors are decisive for their
fundamental function and efficiency in optoelectronics. However, the precise determination …

Regulating surface termination for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells with greater than 23% efficiency

F Li, X Deng, F Qi, Z Li, D Liu, D Shen… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Passivating surface and bulk defects of perovskite films has been proven to be an effective
way to minimize nonradiative recombination losses in perovskite solar cells (PVSCs). The …

[HTML][HTML] Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

M Zhang, L Zhu, G Zhou, T Hao, C Qiu, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The chemical structure of donors and acceptors limit the power conversion efficiencies
achievable with active layers of binary donor-acceptor mixtures. Here, using quaternary …

Central unit fluorination of non‐fullerene acceptors enables highly efficient organic solar cells with over 18% efficiency

H Chen, H Liang, Z Guo, Y Zhu, Z Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Halogenation of terminal of acceptors has been shown to give dramatic improvements in
power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs). Similar significant …

3D acceptors with multiple A–D–A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Chen, Z Zhang, P Wang, Y Zhang, K Ma… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared to the most-studied non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with linear skeletons, multi-
dimensional NFAs with largely conjugated extensions in multiple directions may contribute …