Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Solvent additives: key morphology‐directing agents for solution‐processed organic solar cells

C McDowell, M Abdelsamie, MF Toney… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) have the advantage of possible fabrication by energy‐efficient
and cost‐effective deposition methods, such as solution processing. Solvent additives can …

Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

Revealing morphology evolution in highly efficient bulk heterojunction and pseudo‐planar heterojunction solar cells by additives treatment

Q He, W Sheng, M Zhang, G Xu, P Zhu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Additives treatment is as a very effective strategy to optimize bulk heterojunction (BHJ)
morphology. However, the inherent working mechanism of this strategy still lacks …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Abnormal strong burn-in degradation of highly efficient polymer solar cells caused by spinodal donor-acceptor demixing

N Li, JD Perea, T Kassar, M Richter… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells is determined by the delicate, meticulously optimized
bulk-heterojunction microstructure, which consists of finely mixed and relatively separated …

[HTML][HTML] Donor polymer design enables efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

Z Li, K Jiang, G Yang, JYL Lai, T Ma, J Zhao… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To achieve efficient organic solar cells, the design of suitable donor–acceptor couples is
crucially important. State-of-the-art donor polymers used in fullerene cells may not perform …

Fundamentals of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: An overview of stability/degradation issues and strategies for improvement

S Rafique, SM Abdullah, K Sulaiman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last few years, the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) structure has remarkably improved. However, for a large scale roll to …

A review of non-fullerene polymer solar cells: from device physics to morphology control

RS Gurney, DG Lidzey, T Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The rise in power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices over the last
few years has been driven by the emergence of new organic semiconductors and the …

A review on emerging barrier materials and encapsulation strategies for flexible perovskite and organic photovoltaics

LJ Sutherland, HC Weerasinghe… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have undergone rapid
development within the last decade, exhibiting exciting properties such as high efficiency …