Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors

OV Mikhnenko, PWM Blom, TQ Nguyen - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The purpose of this review is to provide a basic physical description of the exciton diffusion
in organic semiconductors. Furthermore, experimental methods that are used to measure …

Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

Recent progress and perspective in solution-processed Interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer and organometal perovskite solar cells

CC Chueh, CZ Li, AKY Jen - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we summarize the latest developments in solution-processed interfacial layers
that have contributed to the significantly improved performance of polymer and perovskite …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Long-Range Balanced Electron- and Hole-Transport Lengths in Organic-Inorganic CH3NH3PbI3

G Xing, N Mathews, S Sun, SS Lim, YM Lam, M Grätzel… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Low-temperature solution-processed photovoltaics suffer from low efficiencies because of
poor exciton or electron-hole diffusion lengths (typically about 10 nanometers). Recent …

Fundamentals of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: An overview of stability/degradation issues and strategies for improvement

S Rafique, SM Abdullah, K Sulaiman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last few years, the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) structure has remarkably improved. However, for a large scale roll to …

High exciton diffusion coefficients in fused ring electron acceptor films

S Chandrabose, K Chen, AJ Barker… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Modest exciton diffusion lengths dictate the need for nanostructured bulk heterojunctions in
organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells; however, this morphology compromises charge collection …

The active layer morphology of organic solar cells probed with grazing incidence scattering techniques

P Müller‐Buschbaum - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Grazing incidence X‐ray scattering (GIXS) provides unique insights into the morphology of
active materials and thin film layers used in organic photovoltaic devices. With grazing …

Synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications

YJ Cheng, SH Yang, CS Hsu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …