Organic photovoltaics over three decades

O Inganäs - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic devices, over the last three
decades, has led to unexpected performance for an alternative choice of materials to convert …

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 …

Hybridization of local exciton and charge-transfer states reduces nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

FD Eisner, M Azzouzi, Z Fei, X Hou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A number of recent studies have shown that the nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar
cells can be suppressed in systems with low energetic offsets between donor and acceptor …

Filterless narrowband visible photodetectors

Q Lin, A Armin, PL Burn, P Meredith - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Wavelength-selective light detection is crucial for many applications, including imaging and
machine vision. Narrowband spectral responses are required for colour discrimination, and …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

K Vandewal, S Albrecht, ET Hoke, KR Graham… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Interfaces between organic electron-donating (D) and electron-accepting (A) materials have
the ability to generate charge carriers on illumination. Efficient organic solar cells require a …

Charge photogeneration in organic solar cells

TM Clarke, JR Durrant - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In recent years, organic solar cells utilizing π-conjugated polymers have attracted
widespread interest in both the academic and, increasingly, the commercial communities …

Factors limiting device efficiency in organic photovoltaics

RAJ Janssen, J Nelson - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiency of the most efficient organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells has
recently increased to over 10%. To enable further increases, the factors limiting the device …

The role of driving energy and delocalized states for charge separation in organic semiconductors

AA Bakulin, A Rao, VG Pavelyev, PHM van Loosdrecht… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The electron-hole pair created via photon absorption in organic photoconversion systems
must overcome the Coulomb attraction to achieve long-range charge separation. We show …

Recent advances in wide‐bandgap photovoltaic polymers

Y Cai, L Huo, Y Sun - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has witnessed significant advances in the field of organic solar cells
(OSCs). Ongoing improvements in the power conversion efficiency of OSCs have been …