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 …

Recent progress and challenges toward highly stable nonfullerene acceptor‐based organic solar cells

Y Wang, J Lee, X Hou, C Labanti, J Yan… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) have made significant
breakthrough in their device performance, now achieving a power conversion efficiency of≈ …

Binary organic solar cells breaking 19% via manipulating the vertical component distribution

Y Wei, Z Chen, G Lu, N Yu, C Li, J Gao, X Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The variation of the vertical component distribution can significantly influence the
photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), mainly due to its impact on exciton …

Single‐junction organic solar cells with 19.17% efficiency enabled by introducing one asymmetric guest acceptor

R Sun, Y Wu, X Yang, Y Gao, Z Chen, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been widely identified as an effective approach to obtain high‐
efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). However, for most ternary OSCs, the nonradiative …

Tandem organic solar cell with 20.2% efficiency

Z Zheng, J Wang, P Bi, J Ren, Y Wang, Y Yang, X Liu… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
As a promising strategy for enhancing light utilization, constructing cell with tandem structure
exhibits great potential in achieving high efficiency, which encourages the field of organic …

18.2%-efficient ternary all-polymer organic solar cells with improved stability enabled by a chlorinated guest polymer acceptor

R Sun, T Wang, Q Fan, M Wu, X Yang, X Wu, Y Yu… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Although the polymer/polymer blend systems still lag far behind small-molecule-acceptor-
based counterparts in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), the ternary blending strategy …

Vertically optimized phase separation with improved exciton diffusion enables efficient organic solar cells with thick active layers

Y Cai, Q Li, G Lu, HS Ryu, Y Li, H Jin, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of organic solar cells (OSCs) with thick active layers is of crucial
importance for the roll-to-roll printing of large-area solar panels. Unfortunately, increasing …

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) …

High-speed sequential deposition of photoactive layers for organic solar cell manufacturing

R Sun, T Wang, X Yang, Y Wu, Y Wang, Q Wu… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the great success of organic photovoltaics in terms of device efficiency and stability
at the laboratory scale, pressing demand for high-throughput and cost-effective solutions …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX Xia, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …