Effects of energetic disorder in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

J Yuan, C Zhang, B Qiu, W Liu, SK So… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have progressed rapidly in recent years through the
development of novel organic photoactive materials, especially non-fullerene acceptors …

Understanding and Suppressing Non‐Radiative Recombination Losses in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

Q Liu, K Vandewal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells benefit from non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) due to their high absorption
coefficients, tunable frontier energy levels, and optical gaps, as well as their relatively high …

The energy level conundrum of organic semiconductors in solar cells

J Bertrandie, J Han, CSP De Castro… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The frontier molecular energy levels of organic semiconductors are decisive for their
fundamental function and efficiency in optoelectronics. However, the precise determination …

What we have learnt from PM6: Y6

S Shoaee, HM Luong, J Song, Y Zou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past three years, remarkable advancements in organic solar cells (OSCs) have
emerged, propelled by the introduction of Y6—an innovative A‐DA'D‐A type small molecule …

Contemporary Impedance Analyses of Archetypical PM6: Y6 Bulk‐Heterojunction Blend

N Tokmoldin, C Deibel, D Neher… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An organic bulk heterojunction based on a blend of a conjugated polymer PBDB‐T‐2F
(PM6) and a non‐fullerene acceptor BTP‐4F (Y6) has come forward in recent years as an …

Tin Halide Perovskite Solar Cells with Open-Circuit Voltages Approaching the Shockley–Queisser Limit

W Liu, S Hu, J Pascual, K Nakano… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The power conversion efficiency of tin-based halide perovskite solar cells is limited by large
photovoltage losses arising from the significant energy-level offset between the perovskite …

Identifying the signatures of intermolecular interactions in blends of PM6 with Y6 and N4 using absorption spectroscopy

D Kroh, F Eller, K Schötz, S Wedler… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In organic solar cells, the resulting device efficiency depends strongly on the local
morphology and intermolecular interactions of the blend film. Optical spectroscopy was used …

Recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptors for high performance organic solar cells

H Gao, C Han, X Wan, Y Chen - Industrial Chemistry & Materials, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, significant progress has been witnessed in organic solar cells (OSCs), which
is mainly attributed to the new active layer materials design, especially fused ring acceptors …

Spectroelectrochemically determined energy levels of PM6: Y6 blends and their relevance to solar cell performance

D Neusser, B Sun, WL Tan, L Thomsen… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in organic solar cell performance have been mainly driven forward by
combining high-performance p-type donor–acceptor copolymers (eg PM6) and non …

Building-up an interrelationship between isomeric benzyl inner side chains within nonfullerene acceptors and isomeric xylene solvents for non-chlorinated solvent …

S Jeong, J Park, Y Ji, Y Cho, B Lee, M Jeong… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The side-chain engineering of A–DA'D–A-type nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), well known
as the Y6 series, is an efficient approach for retaining the physical properties of the Y6 series …