Charge generation in organic solar cells: Journey toward 20% power conversion efficiency: Special Issue: Emerging Investigators

Y Tamai - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) have routinely lagged far
behind those of their inorganic counterparts. However, owing to the enormous contributions …

Regulation of molecular orientation in organic solar cells

Q Liang, M Duan, Z Geng, M Zhang, W Xu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The morphological characteristics of the active layer in organic solar cells (OSCs),
encompassing phase separation structure, domain sizes, crystallinity and molecular …

Molecular orientation-dependent energetic shifts in solution-processed non-fullerene acceptors and their impact on organic photovoltaic performance

Y Fu, TH Lee, YC Chin, RA Pacalaj, C Labanti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) employed in state-of-art organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
often exhibit strong quadrupole moments which can strongly impact on material energetics …

A Volatile Solid Additive Enables Oligothiophene All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Excellent Commercial Viability

D Hu, H Tang, S Karuthedath, Q Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The commercial viability of all‐small‐molecule (ASM) organic solar cells (OSCs) requires
high efficiency, long‐term stability, and low‐cost production. However, satisfying all these …

Rationale for highly efficient and outdoor-stable terpolymer solar cells

H Tang, Z Liao, S Karuthedath, S Chen, H Liu… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Random terpolymerization is an effective approach to achieving highly efficient and outdoor-
stable terpolymer photovoltaics. However, the working principle behind this remains unclear …

High-efficiency and low-energy-loss organic solar cells enabled by tuning the end group modification of the terthiophene-based acceptor molecules to enhance …

FU Rehman, S Hameed, RA Khera, M Shaban… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the current study, six nonfullerene small acceptor molecules were designed by end-group
modification of terminal acceptors. Density functional theory calculations of all designed …

Polythiophene Derivatives for Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells

M An, Q Bai, SY Jeong, J Ding, C Zhao… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymerized small molecule acceptors have recently greatly facilitated the development of
all‐polymer solar cells (All‐PSCs) with respect to the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) …

Understanding the charge transfer state and energy loss trade-offs in non-fullerene-based organic solar cells

TA Dela Pena, JI Khan, N Chaturvedi, R Ma… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Energy losses significantly reduce the open-circuit voltage among current state-of-the-art
organic solar cells (OSCs), which limits the further enhancement of their power conversion …

Directed exciton transport highways in organic semiconductors

K Müller, KS Schellhammer, N Gräßler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Exciton bandwidths and exciton transport are difficult to control by material design. We
showcase the intriguing excitonic properties in an organic semiconductor material with …

Thermally‐induced degradation in PM6: Y6‐based bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

S Alam, H Aldosari, CE Petoukhoff… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Thermally induced degradation of organic photovoltaic devices hinders the
commercialization of this emerging PV technology. Thus, a precise understanding of the …