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 …

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

P Cheng, G Li, X Zhan, Y Yang - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past three years, a particularly exciting and active area of research within the field
of organic photovoltaics has been the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Compared …

19.31% binary organic solar cell and low non-radiative recombination enabled by non-monotonic intermediate state transition

J Fu, PWK Fong, H Liu, CS Huang, X Lu, S Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to
both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination …

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 …

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

Y Liu, J Zhao, Z Li, C Mu, W Ma, H Hu, K Jiang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Although the field of polymer solar cell has seen much progress in device performance in
the past few years, several limitations are holding back its further development. For instance …

Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Over 14% efficiency in polymer solar cells enabled by a chlorinated polymer donor

S Zhang, Y Qin, J Zhu, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine‐contained polymers, which have been widely used in highly efficient polymer solar
cells (PSCs), are rather costly due to their complicated synthesis and low yields in the …

Achieving over 16% efficiency for single-junction organic solar cells

B Fan, D Zhang, M Li, W Zhong, Z Zeng, L Ying… - Science China …, 2019 - Springer
To achieve high photovoltaic performance of bulk hetero-junction organic solar cells (OSCs),
a range of critical factors including absorption profiles, energy level alignment, charge …

Enhanced power-conversion efficiency in polymer solar cells using an inverted device structure

Z He, C Zhong, S Su, M Xu, H Wu, Y Cao - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells (PSCs) are currently attracting a great deal
of attention and gaining increasing importance, having already shown great promise as …

Polymer solar cells

G Li, R Zhu, Y Yang - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Recent progress in the development of polymer solar cells has improved power-conversion
efficiencies from 3% to almost 9%. Based on semiconducting polymers, these solar cells are …