The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

Narrowband organic photodetectors–towards miniaturized, spectroscopic sensing

Y Wang, J Kublitski, S Xing, F Dollinger, D Spoltore… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Omnipresent quality monitoring in food products, blood-oxygen measurement in lightweight
conformal wrist bands, or data-driven automated industrial production: Innovation in many …

An efficient alkoxy-substituted polymer acceptor for efficient all-polymer solar cells with low voltage loss and versatile photovoltaic applications

H Yu, C Zhao, H Hu, S Zhu, B Zou, TAD Peña… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have emerged as promising candidates for practical
applications owing to their excellent stability and mechanical durability. Despite these …

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 …

Understanding the high performance of over 15% efficiency in single‐junction bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

A Karki, J Vollbrecht, AL Dixon, N Schopp… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The highly efficient single‐junction bulk‐heterojunction (BHJ) PM6: Y6 system can achieve
high open‐circuit voltages (VOC) while maintaining exceptional fill‐factor (FF) and short …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Solution‐processed semitransparent organic photovoltaics: From molecular design to device performance

VV Brus, J Lee, BR Luginbuhl, SJ Ko… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research efforts on solution‐processed semitransparent organic solar cells (OSCs)
are presented. Essential properties of organic donor: acceptor bulk heterojunction blends …

Synergistic control of multilength-scale morphology and vertical phase separation for high-efficiency organic solar cells

X Zhou, W Liang, R Ma, C Zhang, Z Peng… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlling the morphology of organic solar cells (OSCs) presents a significant challenge
due to their complex structure and composition. In particular, attaining synergistic control …

Efficient solid-state photon upconversion enabled by triplet formation at an organic semiconductor interface

S Izawa, M Hiramoto - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
The energy of photons, that is, the wavelength of light, can be upgraded through interactions
with materials in a process called photon upconversion. Although upconversion in organic …

High-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells enabled by a difluorobenzothiadiazole-based donor polymer combined with a properly matched small molecule …

J Zhao, Y Li, H Lin, Y Liu, K Jiang, C Mu, T Ma… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we report high-performance small molecule acceptor (SMA)-based organic solar cells
(OSCs) enabled by the combination of a difluorobenzothiadiazole donor polymer named …