Solvent additives: key morphology‐directing agents for solution‐processed organic solar cells

C McDowell, M Abdelsamie, MF Toney… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) have the advantage of possible fabrication by energy‐efficient
and cost‐effective deposition methods, such as solution processing. Solvent additives can …

Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding energy loss in organic solar cells: toward a new efficiency regime

SM Menke, NA Ran, GC Bazan, RH Friend - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Reducing energy and voltage loss is an imperative area of improvement for the design of
organic solar cells (OSCs). Both in the context of charge generation and charge …

25th anniversary article: bulk heterojunction solar cells: understanding the mechanism of operation

AJ Heeger - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The status of understanding of the operation of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is
reviewed. Because the carrier photoexcitation recombination lengths are typically 10 nm in …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of interfacial molecular orientation on radiative recombination and charge generation efficiency

NA Ran, S Roland, JA Love, V Savikhin… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A long standing question in organic electronics concerns the effects of molecular orientation
at donor/acceptor heterojunctions. Given a well-controlled donor/acceptor bilayer system …

Manipulating the solubility properties of polymer donors for high-performance layer-by-layer processed organic solar cells

H Ning, Q Jiang, P Han, M Lin, G Zhang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
High-performance polymer donors are highly demanded to fulfil the potential of layer-by-
layer (LBL) processed organic solar cells (OSCs). In this study, we present an effective …

[HTML][HTML] Organic photovoltaics

YW Su, SC Lan, KH Wei - Materials Today, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last ten years, the highest efficiency obtained from organic photovoltaics (OPVs), such
as bulk heterojunction polymer: fullerene solar cells, has risen from 2.5 to 11%. This rapid …

Stretchable polymer semiconductors for plastic electronics

GJN Wang, A Gasperini, Z Bao - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers have evolved significantly in the past decade and have proven to be
more than poorly conducting plastics. Instead, improved understanding has resulted in …

On the morphology of polymer‐based photovoltaics

F Liu, Y Gu, JW Jung, WH Jo… - Journal of Polymer …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We review the morphologies of polymer‐based solar cells and the parameters that govern
the evolution of the morphologies and describe different approaches to achieve the optimum …