Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

Realizing 19.05% efficiency polymer solar cells by progressively improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination

K Chong, X Xu, H Meng, J Xue, L Yu, W Ma… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination are critically important
to minimize the loss of absorbed photons and improve the device performance of polymer …

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 …

Dimerized small-molecule acceptors enable efficient and stable organic solar cells

C Sun, JW Lee, C Lee, D Lee, S Cho, SK Kwon, BJ Kim… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of small-molecule acceptor (SMA)-based organic
solar cells (OSCs) have increased remarkably, but their long-term stability is insufficient for …

Layer‐by‐layer processed ternary organic photovoltaics with efficiency over 18%

L Zhan, S Li, X Xia, Y Li, X Lu, L Zuo, M Shi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining a finely tuned morphology of the active layer to facilitate both charge generation
and charge extraction has long been the goal in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cells with approaching 18% efficiency

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, K Xian, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optimizing the molecular structures of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials is one of the
most effective methods to boost power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). For an excellent …

Over 17% efficiency ternary organic solar cells enabled by two non-fullerene acceptors working in an alloy-like model

L Zhan, S Li, TK Lau, Y Cui, X Lu, M Shi… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, organic solar cells (OSCs) with Y6 and its derivatives as electron acceptors
provide the highest efficiencies among the studied binary OSCs. To further improve the …

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 …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …