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 …

The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

N Gasparini, A Salleo, I McCulloch… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019‏ - nature.com
Ternary organic solar cells (TSCs) contain a single three-component photoactive layer with
a wide absorption window, which is obtained without the need for multiple stacks …

Layer‐by‐layer processed ternary organic photovoltaics with efficiency over 18%

L Zhan, S Li, X **a, Y Li, X Lu, L Zuo, M Shi… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining a finely tuned morphology of the active layer to facilitate both charge generation
and charge extraction has long been the goal in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) …

Embedded Host/Guest Alloy Aggregations Enable High‐Performance Ternary Organic Photovoltaics

X Wang, J Wang, P Wang, C Han, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been intensively studied to improve the power conversion
efficiencies of organic photovoltaics. Thereinto, the location of the guest component plays a …

Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

M Zhang, L Zhu, G Zhou, T Hao, C Qiu, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The chemical structure of donors and acceptors limit the power conversion efficiencies
achievable with active layers of binary donor-acceptor mixtures. Here, using quaternary …

Over 17% efficiency ternary organic solar cells enabled by two non-fullerene acceptors working in an alloy-like model

L Zhan, S Li, TK Lau, Y Cui, X Lu, M Shi… - Energy & …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, organic solar cells (OSCs) with Y6 and its derivatives as electron acceptors
provide the highest efficiencies among the studied binary OSCs. To further improve the …

Smart ternary strategy in promoting the performance of polymer solar cells based on bulk‐heterojunction or layer‐by‐layer structure

W Xu, X Ma, JH Son, SY Jeong, L Niu, C Xu, S Zhang… - Small, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although the rapid development of polymer solar cells (PSCs) has been achieved, it is still a
great challenge to explore efficient ways for improving power conversion efficiency (PCE) of …

Graphdiyne derivative as multifunctional solid additive in binary organic solar cells with 17.3% efficiency and high reproductivity

L Liu, Y Kan, K Gao, J Wang, M Zhao… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Morphology tuning of the blend film in organic solar cells (OSCs) is a key approach to
improve device efficiencies. Among various strategies, solid additive is proposed as a …

A new conjugated polymer that enables the integration of photovoltaic and light‐emitting functions in one device

Y Xu, Y Cui, H Yao, T Zhang, J Zhang, L Ma… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Exploring the intriguing bifunctional nature of organic semiconductors and investigating the
feasibility of fabricating bifunctional devices are of great significance in realizing various …

Adding a third component with reduced miscibility and higher LUMO level enables efficient ternary organic solar cells

R Ma, T Liu, Z Luo, K Gao, K Chen, G Zhang… - ACS Energy …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
It is widely known that the miscibility between donor and acceptor is a crucial factor that
affects the morphology and thus device performance of nonfullerene organic solar cells …