Organic solar cells—the path to commercial success

M Riede, D Spoltore, K Leo - Advanced Energy Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells have the potential to become the cheapest form of electricity, beating
even silicon photovoltaics. This article summarizes the state of the art in the field …

The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%

C He, Z Chen, T Wang, Z Shen, Y Li, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enhancing the luminescence property without sacrificing the charge collection is one key to
high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs), while limited by the severe non-radiative …

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 unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

XK Chen, D Qian, Y Wang, T Kirchartz, W Tress, H Yao… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) come with
reduced non-radiative voltage losses (Δ V nr). Here we show that, in contrast to the energy …

High fill factor organic solar cells with increased dielectric constant and molecular packing density

X Zhang, C Li, J Xu, R Wang, J Song, H Zhang, Y Li… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The fill factor (FF) of organic solar cells (OSCs), a critically important photovoltaic parameter,
is still sub-optimal, often less than 0.8. To further reduce the FF gaps with regard to the …

High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder

S Liu, J Yuan, W Deng, M Luo, Y Xie, Q Liang, Y Zou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Energy loss within organic solar cells (OSCs) is undesirable as it reduces cell efficiency,,–.
In particular, non-radiative recombination loss and energetic disorder, which are closely …

Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

C Zhu, J Yuan, F Cai, L Meng, H Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Finding effective molecular design strategies to enable efficient charge generation and small
energy loss is among the long-standing challenges in developing high performance non …

Solution‐processed organic solar cells with high open‐circuit voltage of 1.3 V and low non‐radiative voltage loss of 0.16 V

N An, Y Cai, H Wu, A Tang, K Zhang, X Hao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with inorganic or perovskite solar cells, the relatively large non‐radiative
recombination voltage losses (ΔVnon‐rad) in organic solar cells (OSCs) limit the …

Non‐radiative recombination energy losses in non‐fullerene organic solar cells

D He, F Zhao, C Wang, Y Lin - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Impressive short‐circuit current density and fill factor have been achieved simultaneously in
single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) with the emergence of high‐performance non …