Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors

J Zhang, HS Tan, X Guo, A Facchetti, H Yan - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
The field of non-fullerene organic solar cells has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the development of novel non-fullerene acceptors and …

Progress in non-fullerene acceptor based organic solar cells

L Duan, NK Elumalai, Y Zhang, A Uddin - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2019 - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on fullerene acceptors demonstrated significant growth
over the past two decades with power conversion efficiencies (PCE) exceeding 13 …

Controlling blend morphology for ultrahigh current density in nonfullerene acceptor-based organic solar cells

X Song, N Gasparini, L Ye, H Yao, J Hou… - ACS Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we highlight a system with a well-known polymer donor (PTB7-Th) blended
with a narrow band gap nonfullerene acceptor (IEICO-4F) as the active layer and 1 …

Quantifying the nongeminate recombination dynamics in nonfullerene bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

J Vollbrecht, VV Brus, SJ Ko, J Lee… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a comprehensive analytical model to quantify the total nongeminate
recombination losses, originating from bimolecular as well as bulk and surface trap‐assisted …

Surpassing 10% efficiency benchmark for nonfullerene organic solar cells by scalable coating in air from single nonhalogenated solvent

L Ye, Y Xiong, Q Zhang, S Li, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The commercialization of nonfullerene organic solar cells (OSCs) critically relies on the
response under typical operating conditions (for instance, temperature and humidity) and …

Balancing crop production and energy harvesting in organic solar-powered greenhouses

E Ravishankar, M Charles, Y Xiong, R Henry… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Adding semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) to a greenhouse structure enables
simultaneous plant cultivation and electricity generation, thereby reducing the greenhouse …

Revealing the effects of molecular packing on the performances of polymer solar cells based on A–D–C–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors

S Li, L Zhan, W Zhao, S Zhang, B Ali, Z Fu… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) based on
non-fullerene acceptors have been increasing rapidly over the last couple of years, little is …

Hole‐transfer dependence on blend morphology and energy level alignment in polymer: ITIC photovoltaic materials

ND Eastham, JL Logsdon, EF Manley… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bulk‐heterojunction organic photovoltaic materials containing nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs) have seen remarkable advances in the past year, finally surpassing fullerenes in …

Selenium-substituted non-fullerene acceptors: a route to superior operational stability for organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

C Labanti, MJ Sung, J Luke, S Kwon, R Kumar… - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) for organic solar cells (OSCs) have significantly developed
over the past five years with continuous improvements in efficiency now over 18%. However …

Enhancing photovoltaic performance by tuning the domain sizes of a small-molecule acceptor by side-chain-engineered polymer donors

YC Lin, YJ Lu, CS Tsao, A Saeki, JX Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports two new fluorine-substituted polymer donors (BO2FC8, BO2FEH), with
different side-chain architectures, and a new chlorine-substituted small-molecule acceptor …