Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …

PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics

Z Zheng, H Yao, L Ye, Y Xu, S Zhang, J Hou - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advantages such as being low cost, light weight, and flexible as well as having
low toxicity, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive interest. The field of OSCs …

High-performance and eco-friendly semitransparent organic solar cells for greenhouse applications

D Wang, H Liu, Y Li, G Zhou, L Zhan, H Zhu, X Lu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) can potentially meet the huge demands of off-
grid and rooftop power supplies for advanced agricultural activities; yet, only a few efforts …

Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells

H Huang, Q Guo, S Feng, C Zhang, Z Bi, W Xue… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Non-fullerene fused-ring electron acceptors boost the power conversion efficiency of organic
solar cells, but they suffer from high synthetic cost and low yield. Here, we show a series of …

Fluorination effects on indacenodithienothiophene acceptor packing and electronic structure, end-group redistribution, and solar cell photovoltaic response

TJ Aldrich, M Matta, W Zhu, SM Swick… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Indacenodithienothiophene (IDTT)-based postfullerene electron acceptors, such as ITIC (2,
2′-[[6, 6, 12, 12-tetrakis (4-hexylphenyl)-6, 12-dihydrodithieno [2, 3-d: 2′, 3′-d′]-s …

Mechanism study on organic ternary photovoltaics with 18.3% certified efficiency: from molecule to device

Y Li, Y Guo, Z Chen, L Zhan, C He, Z Bi… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-component organic photovoltaics (OPVs), eg, ternary blends, are effective for high
performance, while the fundamental understanding from the molecular to device level is …

Selective hole and electron transport in efficient quaternary blend organic solar cells

L Arunagiri, Z Peng, X Zou, H Yu, G Zhang, Z Wang… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Multi-component organic solar cells (OSCs) comprising more than two donor and acceptor
materials have attracted significant research attention, as they can offer broader and better …

Phthalimide polymer donor guests enable over 17% efficient organic solar cells via parallel‐like ternary and quaternary strategies

W Zhang, J Huang, J Xu, M Han, D Su… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary strategies show over 16% efficiencies with increased current/voltage owing to
complementary absorption/aligned energy level contributions. However, poor understanding …

Control of aggregated structure of photovoltaic polymers for high‐efficiency solar cells

M Gao, W Wang, J Hou, L Ye - Aggregate, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract π‐Conjugated organic/polymer materials‐based solar cells have attracted
tremendous research interest in the fields of chemistry, physics, materials science, and …

Ternary organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: A review

L Chang, M Sheng, L Duan, A Uddin - Organic Electronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have reached their second golden age in recent two years with a
boosted number of publications. Non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) materials have become a …