Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

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 …

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

C Li, J Zhou, J Song, J Xu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Guo… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors is of vital importance for high-efficiency organic
solar cells. The branched alkyl chain modification is often regarded as a counter-intuitive …

[PDF][PDF] Rational control of sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution toward 17.18% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells

Y Sun, L Nian, Y Kan, Y Ren, Z Chen, L Zhu, M Zhang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
All-small-molecule organic solar cell (ASM OSC) with an efficiency of up to 17.18% is
demonstrated via combining layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition and solid additive methoxy …

[HTML][HTML] Completely non-fused electron acceptor with 3D-interpenetrated crystalline structure enables efficient and stable organic solar cell

L Ma, S Zhang, J Zhu, J Wang, J Ren, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on non-fused conjugated structures have more
potential to realize low-cost organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. However, their power …

Achieving record-efficiency organic solar cells upon tuning the conformation of solid additives

C Li, X Gu, Z Chen, X Han, N Yu, Y Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Volatile solid additives (SADs) are considered as a simple yet effective approach to tune the
film morphology for high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the structural …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …

Near‐infrared materials: the turning point of organic photovoltaics

D Meng, R Zheng, Y Zhao, E Zhang, L Dou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing organic semiconductors have opened up many
exciting opportunities for organic photovoltaic (OPV) research. For example, new …

18.5% efficiency organic solar cells with a hybrid planar/bulk heterojunction

L Hong, H Yao, Y Cui, P Bi, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The donor: acceptor heterojunction has proved as the most successful approach to split
strongly bound excitons in organic solar cells (OSCs). Establishing an ideal architecture with …

Recent advances in dopant-free organic hole-transporting materials for efficient, stable and low-cost perovskite solar cells

P Yan, D Yang, H Wang, S Yang, Z Ge - Energy & Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have made huge progress with a record power conversion
efficiency of up to 25.8%(certified 25.5%) in the last decade. Hole transporting materials …