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) …

Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Quenching to the percolation threshold in organic solar cells

L Ye, S Li, X Liu, S Zhang, M Ghasemi, Y Xiong, J Hou… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
The general lack of knowing the quench depth and the convolution with key kinetic factors
has confounded deeper understanding of the respective importance of these factors in the …

Breaking the 10% efficiency barrier in organic photovoltaics: Morphology and device optimization of well‐known PBDTTT polymers

S Zhang, L Ye, J Hou - Advanced Energy Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
With the advances in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), the invention of model polymers with
superior properties and wide applicability is of vital importance to both the academic and …

Significant improvement of semiconducting performance of the diketopyrrolopyrrole–quaterthiophene conjugated polymer through side-chain engineering via …

J Yao, C Yu, Z Liu, H Luo, Y Yang… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Three diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)–quaterthiophene conjugated polymers, pDPP4T-1,
pDPP4T-2, and pDPP4T-3, in which the molar ratios of the urea-containing alkyl chains vs …

All-polymer solar cell performance optimized via systematic molecular weight tuning of both donor and acceptor polymers

N Zhou, AS Dudnik, TING Li, EF Manley… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The influence of the number-average molecular weight (M n) on the blend film morphology
and photovoltaic performance of all-polymer solar cells (APSCs) fabricated with the donor …

Determining the role of polymer molecular weight for high-performance all-polymer solar cells: its effect on polymer aggregation and phase separation

H Kang, MA Uddin, C Lee, KH Kim… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The molecular weight of a conjugated polymer is one of the key factors determining the
electrical, morphological, and mechanical properties as well as its solubility in organic …

Bulk heterojunction perovskite hybrid solar cells with large fill factor

K Wang, C Liu, P Du, J Zheng, X Gong - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A major limitation to increasing the efficiency of perovskite hybrid solar cells (pero-HSCs) is
the fact that the diffusion length of the electrons is shorter than that of the holes. To facilitate …

Single-junction polymer solar cells with over 10% efficiency by a novel two-dimensional donor–acceptor conjugated copolymer

C Liu, C Yi, K Wang, Y Yang, RS Bhatta… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cell (PSC) performance have
resulted from compressing the band gap to enhance the short-circuit current density (J SC) …