Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

The impact of molecular weight on microstructure and charge transport in semicrystalline polymer semiconductors–poly (3-hexylthiophene), a model study

FPV Koch, J Rivnay, S Foster, C Müller… - Progress in polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Electronic properties of organic semiconductors are often critically dependent upon their
ability to order from the molecular level to the macro-scale, as is true for many other …

A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

R Noriega, J Rivnay, K Vandewal, FPV Koch… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Conjugated polymer chains have many degrees of conformational freedom and interact
weakly with each other, resulting in complex microstructures in the solid state …

Multi-phase semicrystalline microstructures drive exciton dissociation in neat plastic semiconductors

F Paquin, J Rivnay, A Salleo, N Stingelin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
The optoelectronic properties of macromolecular semiconductors depend fundamentally on
their solid-state microstructure. For example, the molecular-weight distribution influences …

Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization

AJ Sneyd, T Fukui, D Paleček, S Prodhan, I Wagner… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Efficient energy transport is desirable in organic semiconductor (OSC) devices. However,
photogenerated excitons in OSC films mostly occupy highly localized states, limiting exciton …

The importance of fullerene percolation in the mixed regions of polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

JA Bartelt, ZM Beiley, ET Hoke… - Advanced Energy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Most optimized donor‐acceptor (D‐A) polymer bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells have
active layers too thin to absorb greater than∼ 80% of incident photons with energies above …

Materials design considerations for charge generation in organic solar cells

SD Dimitrov, JR Durrant - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
This article reviews some of our recent progress on materials design guidelines for
photoinduced charge generation in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells. Over the last 7 …

N-dopants optimize the utilization of spontaneously formed photocharges in organic solar cells

Y Tang, H Zheng, X Zhou, Z Tang, W Ma… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) not only bring rapid efficiency progress to organic solar cells
(OSCs) but have also generated scientific interest in re-evaluating the photocharge …

Control of aggregate formation in poly (3‐hexylthiophene) by solvent, molecular weight, and synthetic method

C Scharsich, RH Lohwasser, M Sommer… - Journal of Polymer …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregate formation in poly (3‐hexylthiophene) depends on molecular weight, solvent, and
synthetic method. The interplay of these parameters thus largely controls device …

On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends

P Westacott, JR Tumbleston, S Shoaee… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, an intermixed phase has been identified within organic photovoltaic (OPV) bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) systems that can exist in addition to relatively phase-pure regions …