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 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Z Jia, Q Ma, Z Chen, L Meng, N Jain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing the energy loss of sub-cells is critical for high performance tandem organic solar
cells, while it is limited by the severe non-radiative voltage loss via the formation of non …

Semi-transparent organic photovoltaics

H Yu, J Wang, Q Zhou, J Qin, Y Wang, X Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As an economical solar energy conversion technology, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are
regarded as a promising solution to environmental problems and energy challenges. With …

Small reorganization energy acceptors enable low energy losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells

Y Shi, Y Chang, K Lu, Z Chen, J Zhang, Y Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Minimizing energy loss is of critical importance in the pursuit of attaining high-performance
organic solar cells. Interestingly, reorganization energy plays a crucial role in photoelectric …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cells with approaching 18% efficiency

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, K **an, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optimizing the molecular structures of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials is one of the
most effective methods to boost power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). For an excellent …

High efficiency (15.8%) all-polymer solar cells enabled by a regioregular narrow bandgap polymer acceptor

H Fu, Y Li, J Yu, Z Wu, Q Fan, F Lin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite the significant progresses made in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) recently, the
relatively low short-circuit current density (J sc) and large energy loss are still quite difficult to …

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 …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, T Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Broadening the optical absorption of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials by enhancing the
intramolecular push-pull effect is a general and effective method to improve the power …