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 …

The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency

P Bi, S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Xu, Y Cui, T Zhang, J Ren… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Reducing non-radiative charge recombination is of critical importance to achieving high-
performance organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The correlation between the exciton …

Organic solar cells using oligomer acceptors for improved stability and efficiency

Y Liang, D Zhang, Z Wu, T Jia, L Lüer, H Tang, L Hong… - Nature energy, 2022 - nature.com
The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) have reached over 19%.
However, the combination of high efficiency and long-term stability is still a major …

A well‐mixed phase formed by two compatible non‐fullerene acceptors enables ternary organic solar cells with efficiency over 18.6%

Y Cai, Y Li, R Wang, H Wu, Z Chen, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy, introducing a third component into a binary blend, opens a simple and
promising avenue to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells …

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 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z **ao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications

Y Li, X Huang, HKM Sheriff Jr, SR Forrest - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The narrow and intense absorption spectra of organic materials open up the opportunity to
develop efficient organic photovoltaic devices that are qualitatively different from other …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX **a, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …