A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Benzotriazole‐based 3D four‐arm small molecules enable 19.1% efficiency for PM6: Y6‐based ternary organic solar cells

X Li, A Tang, H Wang, Z Wang, M Du… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A third component featuring a planar backbone structure similar to the binary host molecule
has been the preferred ingredient for improving the photovoltaic performance of ternary …

3D acceptors with multiple A–D–A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Chen, Z Zhang, P Wang, Y Zhang, K Ma… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared to the most-studied non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with linear skeletons, multi-
dimensional NFAs with largely conjugated extensions in multiple directions may contribute …

Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D Xie, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

Progress in stability of organic solar cells

L Duan, A Uddin - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The organic solar cell (OSC) is a promising emerging low‐cost thin film photovoltaics
technology. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs has overpassed 16% for single …

The performance-stability conundrum of BTP-based organic solar cells

Y Qin, N Balar, Z Peng, A Gadisa, I Angunawela… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
As the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic has been dramatically improved
to over 18%, achieving long-term stability is now crucial for applications of this promising …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

P Cheng, G Li, X Zhan, Y Yang - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past three years, a particularly exciting and active area of research within the field
of organic photovoltaics has been the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Compared …