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 advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cell with 19% efficiency

Y Cui, Y Xu, H Yao, P Bi, L Hong, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Improving power conversion efficiency (PCE) is important for broadening the applications of
organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, a maximum PCE of 19.0%(certified value of 18.7%) …

[HTML][HTML] Small reorganization energy acceptors enable low energy losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells

Y Shi, Y Chang, K Lu, Z Chen, J Zhang, Y Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Minimizing energy loss is of critical importance in the pursuit of attaining high-performance
organic solar cells. Interestingly, reorganization energy plays a crucial role in photoelectric …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D Xie, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Recent developments of polymer solar cells with photovoltaic performance over 17%

J Jin, Q Wang, K Ma, W Shen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the emergence of ADA'DA‐type (Y‐series) non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs), the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic photovoltaic devices have been constantly …

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≈ …

Terpolymerization and Regioisomerization Strategy to Construct Efficient Terpolymer Donors Enabling High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

F Cheng, Y Cui, F Ding, Z Chen, Q Xie, X Xia… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terpolymerization and regioisomerization strategies are combined to develop novel polymer
donors to overcome the difficulty of improving organic solar cells (OSCs) performance. Two …