Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Polymer semiconductors: synthesis, processing, and applications

L Ding, ZD Yu, XY Wang, ZF Yao, Y Lu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors composed of a carbon-based π conjugated backbone have been
studied for several decades as active layers of multifarious organic electronic devices. They …

Binary organic solar cells with 19.2% efficiency enabled by solid additive

J Wang, Y Wang, P Bi, Z Chen, J Qiao, J Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology optimization is critical for achieving high efficiency and stable bulk‐
heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the use of 3, 5 …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

Binary organic solar cells breaking 19% via manipulating the vertical component distribution

Y Wei, Z Chen, G Lu, N Yu, C Li, J Gao, X Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The variation of the vertical component distribution can significantly influence the
photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), mainly due to its impact on exciton …

Achieving 19% power conversion efficiency in planar‐mixed heterojunction organic solar cells using a pseudosymmetric electron acceptor

W Gao, F Qi, Z Peng, FR Lin, K Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 19% is realized in planar‐mixed
heterojunction (PMHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) by adopting the asymmetric selenium …

Manipulating the D: A interfacial energetics and intermolecular packing for 19.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics

C He, Y Pan, Y Ouyang, Q Shen, Y Gao… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulating the donor: acceptor (D: A) energetics, eg, the highest occupied molecular
orbital (HOMO) offset, is the key to balancing the charge separation and charge …

The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Sequential deposition of multicomponent bulk heterojunctions increases efficiency of organic solar cells

X Xu, W Jing, H Meng, Y Guo, L Yu, R Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing tandem and multi‐blend organic solar cells (OSCs) is an effective way to
overcome the absorption limitations of conventional single‐junction devices. However, these …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …