Morphology control in organic solar cells

F Zhao, C Wang, X Zhan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) can directly convert the sunlight into electrical energy and
present some advantages, such as low cost, light weight, flexibility, semitransparency, and …

The future of organic photovoltaics

KA Mazzio, CK Luscombe - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing global demand for energy, along with dwindling fossil fuel resources and a better
understanding of the hidden costs associated with these energy sources, have spurred …

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, T Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Broadening the optical absorption of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials by enhancing the
intramolecular push-pull effect is a general and effective method to improve the power …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …

Eco‐compatible solvent‐processed organic photovoltaic cells with over 16% efficiency

L Hong, H Yao, Z Wu, Y Cui, T Zhang, Y Xu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) have enabled the rapid increase in
power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. However, this …

Improved charge transport and reduced nonradiative energy loss enable over 16% efficiency in ternary polymer solar cells

R Yu, H Yao, Y Cui, L Hong, C He, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the material design and synthesis of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs)
have revealed a new landscape for polymer solar cells (PSCs) and have boosted the power …

The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances

Z Wang, K Gao, Y Kan, M Zhang, C Qiu, L Zhu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The active layer morphology transition of organic photovoltaics under non-equilibrium
conditions are of vital importance in determining the device power conversion efficiency and …

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells

K Weng, L Ye, L Zhu, J Xu, J Zhou, X Feng, G Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Morphology control in laboratory and industry setting remains as a major challenge for
organic solar cells (OSCs) due to the difference in film-drying kinetics between spin coating …

Approaching 16% efficiency in all-small-molecule organic solar cells based on ternary strategy with a highly crystalline acceptor

L Nian, Y Kan, K Gao, M Zhang, N Li, G Zhou, SB Jo… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
All-small-molecule organic solar cells (SM-OSCs) with a high power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of 15.88%(certified 15.5%) are demonstrated by employing 4TIC as the additional …

Over 12% efficiency nonfullerene all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells with sequentially evolved multilength scale morphologies

K Gao, SB Jo, X Shi, L Nian, M Zhang, Y Kan… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, two near‐infrared absorbing molecules are successfully incorporated into
nonfullerene‐based small‐molecule organic solar cells (NFSM‐OSCs) to achieve a very …