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 …

Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Over 19% efficiency organic solar cells by regulating multidimensional intermolecular interactions

C Han, J Wang, S Zhang, L Chen, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research on organic solar cells (OSCs) has progressed through material innovation and
device engineering. However, well‐known and ubiquitous intermolecular interactions, and …

Origins of the open-circuit voltage in ternary organic solar cells and design rules for minimized voltage losses

Y Wang, J Yu, R Zhang, J Yuan, S Hultmark… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The power conversion efficiency of ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), consisting of one
host binary blend and one guest component, remains limited by large voltage losses. The …

From solution to thin film: molecular assembly of π-conjugated systems and impact on (opto) electronic properties

A Khasbaatar, Z Xu, JH Lee… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of conjugated organic molecules from solution to solid-state plays a critical
role in determining the thin film morphology and optoelectronic properties of solution …

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 …

Stable perovskite solar cells with efficiency exceeding 24.8% and 0.3-V voltage loss

M Jeong, IW Choi, EM Go, Y Cho, M Kim, B Lee… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Further improvement and stabilization of perovskite solar cell (PSC) performance are
essential to achieve the commercial viability of next-generation photovoltaics. Considering …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Embedded Host/Guest Alloy Aggregations Enable High‐Performance Ternary Organic Photovoltaics

X Wang, J Wang, P Wang, C Han, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been intensively studied to improve the power conversion
efficiencies of organic photovoltaics. Thereinto, the location of the guest component plays a …

Large-area perovskite solar cells employing spiro-Naph hole transport material

M Jeong, IW Choi, K Yim, S Jeong, M Kim, SJ Choi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Stabilizing the best-performing state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on a
spiro-OMeTAD hole transport material (HTM), without sacrificing their high power conversion …