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 …

Polymer semiconductors: synthesis, processing, and applications

L Ding, ZD Yu, XY Wang, ZF Yao, Y Lu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors composed of a carbon-based π conjugated backbone have been
studied for several decades as active layers of multifarious organic electronic devices. They …

Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors

OV Mikhnenko, PWM Blom, TQ Nguyen - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The purpose of this review is to provide a basic physical description of the exciton diffusion
in organic semiconductors. Furthermore, experimental methods that are used to measure …

A series of simple oligomer-like small molecules based on oligothiophenes for solution-processed solar cells with high efficiency

B Kan, M Li, Q Zhang, F Liu, X Wan… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A series of acceptor–donor–acceptor simple oligomer-like small molecules based on
oligothiophenes, namely, DRCN4T–DRCN9T, were designed and synthesized. Their …

Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Recent progress in π-conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics: solar cells and photodetectors

C Liu, L Shao, S Chen, Z Hu, H Cai, F Huang - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated polymers show promising potential in the application of organic
photovoltaics, including organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) …

Solution-processed organic solar cells based on dialkylthiol-substituted benzodithiophene unit with efficiency near 10%

B Kan, Q Zhang, M Li, X Wan, W Ni… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A small molecule named DR3TSBDT with dialkylthiol-substituted benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5-b′]
dithiophene (BDT) as the central unit was designed and synthesized for solution-processed …

Conducting polymers for optoelectronic devices and organic solar cells: A review

A R. Murad, A Iraqi, SB Aziz, S N. Abdullah, MA Brza - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this review paper, we present a comprehensive summary of the different organic solar cell
(OSC) families. Pure and doped conjugated polymers are described. The band structure …

Recent progress in non-fullerene small molecule acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs)

W Chen, Q Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Power conversion efficiency (PCE) has surpassed 10% for single junction organic solar cells
(OSCs) mainly through the design and synthesis of novel donor materials, the optimization …