This article is written from an organic chemist's point of view and provides an up‐to‐date
review about organic solar cells based on small molecules or oligomers as absorbers and in …

Solution deposited bulk heterojunction organic solar cells are viewed as one of the most
promising alternative energy sources because of their ease of processing and their potential …

In recent years, the electron-accepting diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) moiety has been
receiving considerable attention for constructing donor–acceptor (D–A) type organic …

We report a series of difluorobenzothiadizole (ffBT) and oligothiophene-based polymers with
the oligothiophene unit being quaterthiophene (T4), terthiophene (T3), and bithiophene (T2) …

Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …

In recent years, organic solar cells utilizing π-conjugated polymers have attracted
widespread interest in both the academic and, increasingly, the commercial communities …

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 …

Organic solar cells have the potential to be low-cost and efficient solar energy converters,
with a promising energy balance. They are made of carbon-based semiconductors, which …

Inorganic semiconductor devices such as transistors have been instrumental in shaping the
development of our society of information and communication. Recently, the electronics and …

In this review, we discuss the physics underlying the operation of single and multiple
heterojunction, vacuum-deposited organic solar cells based on small molecular weight thin …