Recent advances of non‐fullerene organic solar cells: From materials and morphology to devices and applications

Y Zhang, Y Lang, G Li - EcoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The innovation of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) enables the rapid progress of organic
solar cells (OSCs) in power conversion efficiencies to over 19%, endowing OSCs with great …

Layer-by-layer fabrication of organic photovoltaic devices: material selection and processing conditions

MDM Faure, BH Lessard - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Layer-by-layer (LbL) processing, otherwise known as sequential deposition, is emerging as
the most promising strategy for fabrication of active layers in organic photovoltaic (OPV) …

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells

K Weng, L Ye, L Zhu, J Xu, J Zhou, X Feng, G Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Morphology control in laboratory and industry setting remains as a major challenge for
organic solar cells (OSCs) due to the difference in film-drying kinetics between spin coating …

Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications

PM Beaujuge, JMJ Fréchet - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organic electronics are broadly anticipated to impact the development of flexible thin-film
device technologies. Among these, solution-processable π-conjugated polymers and small …

High‐efficiency (16.93%) pseudo‐planar heterojunction organic solar cells enabled by binary additives strategy

X Wang, L Zhang, L Hu, Z Xie, H Mao… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acquiring precision adjustable morphology of the blend films to improve the efficiency of
charge separation and collection is a constant goal of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, the …

Cooperative plasmonic effect of Ag and Au nanoparticles on enhancing performance of polymer solar cells

L Lu, Z Luo, T Xu, L Yu - Nano letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
This article describes a cooperative plasmonic effect on improving the performance of
polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells. When mixed Ag and Au nanoparticles are …

Simultaneously improved efficiency and stability in all-polymer solar cells by a P–i–N architecture

Y Xu, J Yuan, S Liang, JD Chen, Y Xia… - ACS Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer organic solar cells offer exceptional stability. Unfortunately, the use of bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) structure has the intrinsic challenge to control the side-chain …

Overcoming Film Quality Issues for Conjugated Polymers Doped with F4TCNQ by Solution Sequential Processing: Hall Effect, Structural, and Optical Measurements

DT Scholes, SA Hawks, PY Yee, H Wu… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that solution-sequential processing (SqP) can yield heavily doped pristine-
quality films when used to infiltrate the molecular dopant 2, 3, 5, 6-tetrafluoro-7, 7, 8, 8 …

Effects of Solvent Additives on Morphology, Charge Generation, Transport, and Recombination in Solution‐Processed Small‐Molecule Solar Cells

AKK Kyaw, DH Wang, C Luo, Y Cao… - Advanced Energy …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of solvent additive (1, 8‐diiodooctane (DIO)) on the morphology, charge
generation, transport, and recombination in solution‐processed small‐molecule solar cells …

PCDTBT: en route for low cost plastic solar cells

S Beaupré, M Leclerc - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Since its inception in 1995, significant advances in the field of bulk heterojunction (BHJ)
solar cells have been made and polymeric semiconductors are now considered to be one of …