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 …

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

J Hou, O Inganäs, RH Friend, F Gao - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been dominated by donor: acceptor blends based on
fullerene acceptors for over two decades. This situation has changed recently, with non …

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

C Li, J Zhou, J Song, J Xu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Guo… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors is of vital importance for high-efficiency organic
solar cells. The branched alkyl chain modification is often regarded as a counter-intuitive …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

M Zhang, L Zhu, G Zhou, T Hao, C Qiu, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The chemical structure of donors and acceptors limit the power conversion efficiencies
achievable with active layers of binary donor-acceptor mixtures. Here, using quaternary …

Organic solar cells with 18% efficiency enabled by an alloy acceptor: a two‐in‐one strategy

F Liu, L Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhou, Q Yue… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The trade‐off between the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc)
has become the core of current organic photovoltaic research, and realizing the minimum …

Isomerization strategy on a non-fullerene guest acceptor for stable organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency

Z Chen, J Zhu, D Yang, W Song, J Shi, J Ge… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The strategy of isomerization plays a simple and effective role in optimizing the molecular
configurations and improving the performance of binary organic solar cells (OSCs) …