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 …

Impact of intermolecular interactions between halogenated volatile solid additives and the nonfullerene acceptor in organic solar cells

J Zhao, S Chung, H Li, Z Zhao, C Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The halogenated volatile solid additives can delicately optimize the active layer morphology
of organic solar cells, improving the devices' performance, stability, and reproducibility …

Achieving 19.78%‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells by 2D/1A Ternary Blend Strategy with Reduced Non‐Radiative Energy Loss

X Jiang, X Wang, Y Wang, G Ran, W Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing non‐radiative energy loss (∆ Enr) is critical for enhancing the photovoltaic
performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). To achieve this, a small molecular donor, LJ1, is …

Charge carrier induced structural ordering and disordering in organic mixed ionic electronic conductors

TJ Quill, G LeCroy, A Marks, SA Hesse… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Operational stability underpins the successful application of organic mixed ionic‐electronic
conductors (OMIECs) in a wide range of fields, including biosensing, neuromorphic …

Pathways to Upscaling Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells Using Green Solvents: A Study on Device Photophysics in the Transition from Lab‐to‐Fab

E Mazzolini, RA Pacalaj, Y Fu, BR Patil… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As the rise of nonfullerene acceptors (NFA) has allowed lab‐scale organic solar cells (OSC)
to reach 20% efficiency, translating these devices into roll‐to‐roll compatible fabrication still …

Structurally pure and reproducible polymer materials for high-performance organic solar cells

S Smeets, Q Liu, J Vanderspikken, TJ Quill… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The commercial uptake of (polymer-based) organic solar cells is among others hindered by
poor reproducibility of the device performance, arising from the variability in molar mass …

Map** the interfacial energetic landscape in organic solar cells reveals pathways to reducing non-radiative losses

GJ Thapa, M Chauhan, JP Mauthe, DB Dougherty… - Matter, 2025 - cell.com
Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells have made remarkable inroads toward 20%
power conversion efficiency, yet non-radiative recombination losses (ΔV nr) remain high …

Crystalline and Amorphous Interface Simulations of Donor–Acceptor Blends

P Agarwala, ED Gomez, ST Milner - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In an organic solar cell, exciton dissociation and charge transport to generate current
depend on interface and bulk morphology, respectively, and their rates dictate device …

Visualization of Nanocrystallites in Organic Semiconducting Blends Using Cryo‐Electron Microscopy

U Bothra, H Venugopal, D Kabra, CR McNeill… - Small …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency of an organic solar cell is highly dependent on the complex, interpenetrating
morphology, and molecular order within the composite phases of the bulk heterojunction …

Resolving the Atomistic Morphology of Domains and Interfaces in PM6: Y6 with Molecular Dynamics

CL Mahajan, ED Gomez, ST Milner - Macromolecules, 2025 - ACS Publications
Modeling charge generation and transport dynamics in organic semiconductors benefits
greatly from an atomistic description of the microstructure. In this work, virtual site coarse …