Recent advances in subphthalocyanines and related subporphyrinoids

G Lavarda, J Labella, MV Martínez-Díaz… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Half a century after the synthesis of the first subporphyrinoid, the study of tripyrrole and
trisoindole porphyrin analogues constitutes a fervent and rapidly expanding research area …

Engineering charge-transfer states for efficient, low-energy-loss organic photovoltaics

X Liu, BP Rand, SR Forrest - Trends in Chemistry, 2019 - cell.com
Charge transfer (CT) between donors and acceptors following photoexcitation of organic
photovoltaics (OPVs) gives rise to bound electron–hole pairs across the donor–acceptor …

Quantifying the effect of energetic disorder on organic solar cell energy loss

J Bertrandie, M Gui, A Sharma, W Alsufyani… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the factors affecting energy loss in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is
imperative to achieve further improvements in their efficiency and to establish design rules …

Toward high-efficiency organic photovoltaics: perspectives on the origin and role of energetic disorder

W Deng, W Liu, R Qian, H Wu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaics is strongly limited by relatively
large energy loss, which is partially due to the disordered nature of organic semiconductors …

Dispersive Charge Transfer State Electroluminescence in Organic Solar Cells

R Lampande, A Pizano, M Gui… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The notion of quasi‐equilibrium is central to most solar cells; however, it has been
questioned in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) owing to strong energetic disorder that frustrates …

Slow relaxation of photogenerated charge carriers boosts open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells

T Upreti, S Wilken, H Zhang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Among the parameters determining the efficiency of an organic solar cell, the open-circuit
voltage (V OC) is the one with most room for improvement. Existing models for the …

Influence of disorder and state filling on charge-transfer-state absorption and emission spectra

SUZ Khan, BP Rand - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
This paper is a contribution to the Physical Review Applied collection titled Photovoltaic
Energy Conversion. We conduct comprehensive temperature-dependent measurements of …

Multiple charge transfer states in donor–acceptor heterojunctions with large frontier orbital energy offsets

SUZ Khan, G Londi, X Liu, MA Fusella… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this work, we demonstrate several organic amorphous donor–acceptor systems that
exhibit sub-bandgap features over a more than 2 eV spectral range. An in-depth study of …

Voltage-dependent excitation dynamics in UV-absorbing organic photovoltaics with efficient charge transfer exciton emission

QC Burlingame, X Liu, ML Ball, BP Rand… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Intermolecular charge-transfer excitons play a central role in determining the performance of
organic solar cells as their voltage-dependent formation, dissociation, and recombination …

Equilibrated charge carrier populations govern steady-state nongeminate recombination in disordered organic solar cells

S Roland, J Kniepert, JA Love, V Negi… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We employed bias-assisted charge extraction techniques to investigate the transient and
steady-state recombination of photogenerated charge carriers in complete devices of a …