Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Highly efficient and stable organic solar cells achieved by improving exciton diffusion and splitting through a volatile additive-assisted ternary strategy

C Zhao, Y Wang, K Sun, C Gao, C Li, Z Liang… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ternary and additive strategy, introducing a third component into a binary blend and add
suitable additives, opens a simple and promising avenue to improve the power conversion …

Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%

C Chen, L Wang, W **a, K Qiu, C Guo, Z Gan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nanoscale fibrillar morphology, featuring long-range structural order, provides abundant
interfaces for efficient exciton dissociation and high-quality pathways for effective charge …

Benzo [d] thiazole based wide bandgap donor polymers enable 19.54% efficiency organic solar cells along with desirable batch‐to‐batch reproducibility and general …

B Pang, C Liao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The limited selection pool of high‐performance wide bandgap (WBG) polymer donors is a
bottleneck problem of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells (OSCs) that …

Electrostatic force promoted intermolecular stacking of polymer donors toward 19.4% efficiency binary organic solar cells

Z Gan, L Wang, J Cai, C Guo, C Chen, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Conjugated polymers are generally featured with low structural order due to their aromatic
and irregular structural units, which limits their light absorption and charge mobility in …

Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Y Fu, C Guo, D Li, J Cheng, W Sun… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The photoactive layer of organic solar cells consists of p-type electron donors and n-type
electron acceptors, which phase separate to form fine and continuous networks for charge …

A Polycrystalline Polymer Donor as Pre‐Aggregate toward Ordered Molecular Aggregation for 19.3% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells

C Guo, Y Fu, D Li, L Wang, B Zhou, C Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors are generally featured with low structure order in solid‐state films,
which leads to low charge‐transport mobility and strong charge recombination in their …

Tunable Donor Aggregation Dominance in a Ternary Matrix of All‐Polymer Blends with Improved Efficiency and Stability

R Ma, H Li, TA Dela Peña, X **e, PWK Fong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Using two structurally similar polymer acceptors in constructing high‐efficiency ternary all‐
polymer solar cells is a widely acknowledged strategy; however, the focus thus far has not …

Achieving Desired Pseudo‐Planar Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells via Binary‐Dilution Strategy

L Wen, H Mao, L Zhang, J Zhang, Z Qin… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The sequential deposition process has demonstrated the great possibility to achieve a
photolayer architecture with an ideal gradient phase separation morphology, which has a …

Step-by-step modulation of crystalline features and exciton kinetics for 19.2% efficiency ortho-xylene processed organic solar cells

B Zou, W Wu, TA Dela Peña, R Ma, Y Luo, Y Hai… - Nano-micro letters, 2024 - Springer
With plenty of popular and effective ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) construction
strategies proposed and applied, its power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) have come to a …