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 …

Side-chain engineering of nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

Z Luo, T Xu, C Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thanks to their broad absorption spectra, easily modifiable molecular energy levels and
chemical structures, nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) have attracted …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture

K Jiang, J Zhang, C Zhong, FR Lin, F Qi, Q Li, Z Peng… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
At present, high-performance organic photovoltaics mostly adopt a bulk-heterojunction
architecture, in which exciton dissociation is facilitated by charge-transfer states formed at …

Enhancing photon utilization efficiency for high‐performance organic photovoltaic cells via regulating phase‐transition kinetics

P Bi, J Wang, Y Cui, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient photon utilization is key to achieving high‐performance organic photovoltaic (OPV)
cells. In this study, a multiscale fibril network morphology in a PBQx‐TCl: PBDB‐TF: eC9 …

Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Z Bi, W Ma, Z Chen… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The large open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss is currently the main obstacle for pursuing the
highly efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). To address this issue, we construct the ternary …

Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%

C He, Z Chen, T Wang, Z Shen, Y Li, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enhancing the luminescence property without sacrificing the charge collection is one key to
high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs), while limited by the severe non-radiative …

Multiphase morphology with enhanced carrier lifetime via quaternary strategy enables high‐efficiency, thick‐film, and large‐area organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Yin, Y Li, S Li, T Chen, R Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous breakthrough of the efficiency of organic photovoltaics (OPVs), their
practical applications are on the agenda. However, the thickness tolerance and upscaling in …

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Z Jia, Q Ma, Z Chen, L Meng, N Jain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing the energy loss of sub-cells is critical for high performance tandem organic solar
cells, while it is limited by the severe non-radiative voltage loss via the formation of non …

Unsymmetrically Chlorinated Non‐Fused Electron Acceptor Leads to High‐Efficiency and Stable Organic Solar Cells

DL Ma, QQ Zhang, CZ Li - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Searching the cost‐effective organic semiconductors is strongly needed in order to facilitate
the practice of organic solar cells (OSCs), yet to be fulfilled. Herein, we have succeeded in …