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 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

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] Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency

P Bi, S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Xu, Y Cui, T Zhang, J Ren… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Reducing non-radiative charge recombination is of critical importance to achieving high-
performance organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The correlation between the exciton …

[HTML][HTML] Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

Tandem organic solar cells with 20.6% efficiency enabled by reduced voltage losses

J Wang, Z Zheng, P Bi, Z Chen, Y Wang… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Large voltage losses are the main obstacle for achieving high efficiency in organic solar
cells (OSCs). Here we construct ternary OSCs by introducing an asymmetric small molecule …

Organic solar cells with 18% efficiency enabled by an alloy acceptor: a two‐in‐one strategy

F Liu, L Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhou, Q Yue… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The trade‐off between the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc)
has become the core of current organic photovoltaic research, and realizing the minimum …

Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Y Fu, C Guo, D Li, J Cheng, W Sun… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The photoactive layer of organic solar cells consists of p-type electron donors and n-type
electron acceptors, which phase separate to form fine and continuous networks for charge …

Models and mechanisms of ternary organic solar cells

M Günther, N Kazerouni, D Blätte, JD Perea… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), three different components are mixed to form the
photoactive layer, opening up opportunities to boost the power conversion efficiency—for …

A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

XK Chen, D Qian, Y Wang, T Kirchartz, W Tress, H Yao… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) come with
reduced non-radiative voltage losses (Δ V nr). Here we show that, in contrast to the energy …