A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z **ao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

A review of grazing incidence small‐and wide‐angle x‐ray scattering techniques for exploring the film morphology of organic solar cells

A Mahmood, JL Wang - Solar RRL, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a rapid evolution of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been achieved by virtue
of structural design of active layer materials and optimization of film morphology. Along with …

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 …

Approaching 18% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics with wide bandgap polymer donor and well compatible Y6: Y6-1O as acceptor

X Ma, A Zeng, J Gao, Z Hu, C Xu, JH Son… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A series of ternary organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are fabricated with one wide bandgap
polymer D18-Cl as donor, and well compatible Y6 and Y6-1O as acceptor. The open-circuit …

Achieving 15.81% and 15.29% efficiency of all-polymer solar cells based on layer-by-layer and bulk heterojunction structures

W Xu, X Zhu, X Ma, H Zhou, X Li, SY Jeong… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Wide bandgap polymer donor PM6 and narrow bandgap polymer acceptor PY-IT were
selected to construct all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) with a layer-by-layer (LbL) or bulk …

Over 17.7% efficiency ternary-blend organic solar cells with low energy-loss and good thickness-tolerance

J Gao, X Ma, C Xu, X Wang, JH Son, SY Jeong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ternary-blend organic solar cells (TOSCs) are fabricated with PM6: BTP-4F-12 as the host
system and IT-M as the third component. The third component IT-M takes multiple roles in …

A review of non-fullerene polymer solar cells: from device physics to morphology control

RS Gurney, DG Lidzey, T Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The rise in power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices over the last
few years has been driven by the emergence of new organic semiconductors and the …

Efficient Semitransparent Layer‐by‐Layer Organic Photovoltaics via Optimizing Wide Bandgap and Narrow Absorption Polymer Layer Thickness

C Xu, K **, Z **ao, Z Zhao, Y Yan, X Zhu, X Li… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Layer‐by‐layer organic photovoltaics (LbL‐OPVs) are fabricated using wide bandgap
polymer D18 with narrow photon harvesting range in visible light region and narrow …

Molecular order control of non-fullerene acceptors for high-efficiency polymer solar cells

W Li, M Chen, J Cai, ELK Spooner, H Zhang… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Adjusting molecular ordering, orientation, and nanoscale morphology within the photoactive
layer of polymer: non-fullerene organic solar cells is crucial in achieving high power …

Cold‐aging and solvent vapor mediated aggregation control toward 18% efficiency binary organic solar cells

C Guo, D Li, L Wang, B Du, ZX Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular ordering and pre‐aggregation of photovoltaic materials in solution can
significantly affect the nanoscale morphology in solid photoactive layers, and play a vital role …