A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Progress and prospects of the morphology of non-fullerene acceptor based high-efficiency organic solar cells

L Zhu, M Zhang, W Zhong, S Leng, G Zhou… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), the power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been continuously improved and has exceeded …

Crystallography, morphology, electronic structure, and transport in non-fullerene/non-indacenodithienothiophene polymer: Y6 solar cells

W Zhu, AP Spencer, S Mukherjee… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Emerging nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) with crystalline domains enable high-performance
bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Thermal annealing is known to enhance the BHJ …

High‐efficiency organic solar cells based on a low‐cost fully non‐fused electron acceptor

Y Zhou, M Li, H Lu, H Jin, X Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A series of tetrathiophene‐based fully non‐fused ring acceptors (4T‐1, 4T‐2, 4T‐3, and 4T‐
4), which can be paired with the star donor polymer PBDB‐T to fabricate highly efficient …

Increasing donor-acceptor spacing for reduced voltage loss in organic solar cells

J Wang, X Jiang, H Wu, G Feng, H Wu, J Li, Y Yi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The high voltage losses (V loss), originating from inevitable electron-phonon coupling in
organic materials, limit the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells to lower values …

Understanding and Suppressing Non‐Radiative Recombination Losses in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

Q Liu, K Vandewal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells benefit from non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) due to their high absorption
coefficients, tunable frontier energy levels, and optical gaps, as well as their relatively high …

Inhibiting excessive molecular aggregation to achieve highly efficient and stabilized organic solar cells by introducing a star-shaped nitrogen heterocyclic-ring …

X Liao, Q Xie, Y Guo, Q He, Z Chen, N Yu… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inhibiting excessive aggregation and migration of active layer molecules is essential to
improve the stability and performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the star-shaped …

Hysteresis-free lead-free double-perovskite solar cells by interface engineering

M Pantaler, KT Cho, VIE Queloz… - ACS energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hybrid perovskite solar cells have been creating considerable excitement in the photovoltaic
community. However, they still rely on toxic elements, which impose severe limits on their …

A Simple Nonfused Ring Electron Acceptor with a Power Conversion Efficiency Over 16%

X Wang, R Zeng, H Lu, G Ran, A Zhang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary By simplifying the π‐bridge unit, a nonfused ring electron
acceptor (NFREA) BM‐2F was designed and synthesized with several high‐yield steps. The …

Overview on different types of solar cells: an update

H Soonmin, Hardani, P Nandi, BS Mwankemwa… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Solar energy is free from noise and environmental pollution. It could be used to replace non-
renewable sources such as fossil fuels, which are in limited supply and have negative …