Recent advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

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 …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

C Zhu, J Yuan, F Cai, L Meng, H Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Finding effective molecular design strategies to enable efficient charge generation and small
energy loss is among the long-standing challenges in develo** high performance non …

High efficiency polymer solar cells with efficient hole transfer at zero highest occupied molecular orbital offset between methylated polymer donor and brominated …

C Sun, S Qin, R Wang, S Chen, F Pan… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Achieving efficient charge transfer at small frontier molecular orbital offsets between donor
and acceptor is crucial for high performance polymer solar cells (PSCs). Here we synthesize …

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

C Yan, S Barlow, Z Wang, H Yan, AKY Jen… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are currently a major focus of research in the development
of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). In contrast to the widely used fullerene …

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 …

High‐performance noncovalently fused‐ring electron acceptors for organic solar cells enabled by noncovalent intramolecular interactions and end‐group engineering

X Zhang, L Qin, J Yu, Y Li, Y Wei, X Liu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Noncovalently fused‐ring electron acceptors (NFREAs) have attracted much attention in
recent years owing to their advantages of simple synthetic routes, high yields and low costs …

A wide band gap polymer with a deep highest occupied molecular orbital level enables 14.2% efficiency in polymer solar cells

S Li, L Ye, W Zhao, H Yan, B Yang, D Liu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To simultaneously achieve low photon energy loss (E loss) and broad spectral response, the
molecular design of the wide band gap (WBG) donor polymer with a deep HOMO level is of …

Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …