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 …

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 …

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by multicomponent photoactive layer based on one-pot polymerization

B Liu, H Sun, JW Lee, Z Jiang, J Qiao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Degradation of the kinetically trapped bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar
cells (OSCs) remains a grand challenge for their practical application. Herein, we …

Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

A review of non-fullerene polymer solar cells: from device physics to morphology control

RS Gurney, DG Lidzey, T Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The rise in power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices over the last
few years has been driven by the emergence of new organic semiconductors and the …

Light-induced quinone conformation of polymer donors toward 19.9% efficiency organic solar cells

C Guo, Y Sun, L Wang, C Liu, C Chen… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Modulating the self-assembly process of polymer donors is crucial to acquire an ideal
morphology of the photoactive layer for efficient photovoltaics, however, this always requires …

Molecular engineering of conjugated polymers for efficient hole transport and defect passivation in perovskite solar cells

F Cai, J Cai, L Yang, W Li, RS Gurney, H Yi, A Iraqi… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells represent an exceptional candidate for next-
generation photovoltaic technology. However, the presence of surface defects in perovskite …

On the glass transition of polymer semiconductors and its impact on polymer solar cell stability

C Müller - Chemistry of Materials, 2015 - ACS Publications
The glass transition temperature is a critical processing parameter that governs the kinetics
of molecular organization of polymer semiconductors during solidification. Yet, little attention …

Simultaneously enhanced efficiency and operational stability of nonfullerene organic solar cells via solid‐additive‐mediated aggregation control

X Zhang, J Cai, C Guo, D Li, B Du, Y Zhuang, S Cheng… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The additive strategy is widely used in optimizing the morphology of organic solar cells
(OSCs). The majority of additives are liquid with high boiling points, which will be trapped …

Multiple cases of efficient nonfullerene ternary organic solar cells enabled by an effective morphology control method

K Jiang, G Zhang, G Yang, J Zhang, Z Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted much research attention, as they can
maintain the simplicity of the single‐junction device architecture while broadening the …