Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Versatile ternary organic solar cells: a critical review

Q An, F Zhang, J Zhang, W Tang, Z Deng… - Energy & Environmental …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells has been constantly refreshed
in the past ten years from 4% up to 11% due to the contribution from the chemists on novel …

Low-bandgap conjugated polymers enabling solution-processable tandem solar cells

G Li, WH Chang, Y Yang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
The technology of polymer-based organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells has made great progress
in the past decade, with the power conversion efficiency increasing from just a few per cent …

Status and prospects for ternary organic photovoltaics

L Lu, MA Kelly, W You, L Yu - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
In the past few years, ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) featuring multiple donor or acceptor
materials in the active layer have emerged as a promising structure to simultaneously …

Ternary blend polymer solar cells with enhanced power conversion efficiency

L Lu, T Xu, W Chen, ES Landry, L Yu - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The use ternary organic components is currently being pursued to enhance the power
conversion efficiency of bulk heterojunction solar cells by expanding the spectral range of …

Organic ternary solar cells: a review

T Ameri, P Khoram, J Min, CJ Brabec - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, researchers have paid a great deal of attention to the research and development
of organic solar cells, leading to a breakthrough of over 10% power conversion efficiency …

Ternary solar cells with a mixed face-on and edge-on orientation enable an unprecedented efficiency of 12.1%

T Kumari, SM Lee, SH Kang, S Chen… - Energy & Environmental …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ternary organic solar cells (OSCs), with a simple structure, can be easily adopted as sub-
cells in a tandem design, thereby further enhancing the power conversion efficiency (PCE) …

[HTML][HTML] Solar energy conversion: From natural to artificial photosynthesis

ME El-Khouly, E El-Mohsnawy, S Fukuzumi - Journal of photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy
source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An …

Squaraine dyes for organic photovoltaic cells

G Chen, H Sasabe, T Igarashi, Z Hong… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, squaraine (SQ) dyes used as donor materials in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells
have received increasing attention because of their simple synthetic routes, high absorption …

Efficient ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with tunable open-circuit voltage

PP Khlyabich, B Burkhart… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
To explore the potential of ternary blend bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaics as a
general platform for increasing the attainable performance of organic solar cells, a model …