Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

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 …

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 …

Over 19% efficiency organic solar cells by regulating multidimensional intermolecular interactions

C Han, J Wang, S Zhang, L Chen, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research on organic solar cells (OSCs) has progressed through material innovation and
device engineering. However, well‐known and ubiquitous intermolecular interactions, and …

Achieving 19% power conversion efficiency in planar‐mixed heterojunction organic solar cells using a pseudosymmetric electron acceptor

W Gao, F Qi, Z Peng, FR Lin, K Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 19% is realized in planar‐mixed
heterojunction (PMHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) by adopting the asymmetric selenium …

Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture

K Jiang, J Zhang, C Zhong, FR Lin, F Qi, Q Li, Z Peng… - Nature Energy, 2022‏ - nature.com
At present, high-performance organic photovoltaics mostly adopt a bulk-heterojunction
architecture, in which exciton dissociation is facilitated by charge-transfer states formed at …

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 …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

Fibrillization of non‐fullerene acceptors enables 19% efficiency pseudo‐bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

D Li, N Deng, Y Fu, C Guo, B Zhou, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The structural order and aggregation of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) are critical toward
light absorption, phase separation, and charge transport properties of their photovoltaic …

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 …