Side-chain engineering of nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

Z Luo, T Xu, C Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thanks to their broad absorption spectra, easily modifiable molecular energy levels and
chemical structures, nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) have attracted …

Self-assembled monolayers for interfacial engineering in solution-processed thin-film electronic devices: design, fabrication, and applications

M Li, M Liu, F Qi, FR Lin, AKY Jen - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interfacial engineering has long been a vital means of improving thin-film device
performance, especially for organic electronics, perovskites, and hybrid devices. It greatly …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

20.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics employing a π‐extension quinoxaline‐based acceptor with ordered arrangement

Z Chen, J Ge, W Song, X Tong, H Liu, X Yu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells, as a cutting‐edge sustainable renewable energy technology, possess a
myriad of potential applications, while the bottleneck problem of less than 20% efficiency …

Single‐junction organic solar cells with 19.17% efficiency enabled by introducing one asymmetric guest acceptor

R Sun, Y Wu, X Yang, Y Gao, Z Chen, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been widely identified as an effective approach to obtain high‐
efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). However, for most ternary OSCs, the nonradiative …

Manipulating the D: A interfacial energetics and intermolecular packing for 19.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics

C He, Y Pan, Y Ouyang, Q Shen, Y Gao… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulating the donor: acceptor (D: A) energetics, eg, the highest occupied molecular
orbital (HOMO) offset, is the key to balancing the charge separation and charge …

18.2%-efficient ternary all-polymer organic solar cells with improved stability enabled by a chlorinated guest polymer acceptor

R Sun, T Wang, Q Fan, M Wu, X Yang, X Wu, Y Yu… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Although the polymer/polymer blend systems still lag far behind small-molecule-acceptor-
based counterparts in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), the ternary blending strategy …

Manipulating charge transfer and transport via intermediary electron acceptor channels enables 19.3% efficiency organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Y Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Balancing and improving the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density
(Jsc) synergistically has always been the critical point for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) to …

Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Z Bi, W Ma, Z Chen… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The large open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss is currently the main obstacle for pursuing the
highly efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). To address this issue, we construct the ternary …