Charge photogeneration in organic solar cells

TM Clarke, JR Durrant - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In recent years, organic solar cells utilizing π-conjugated polymers have attracted
widespread interest in both the academic and, increasingly, the commercial communities …

Singlet fission

MB Smith, J Michl - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In the following we provide a comprehensive review of singlet fission in organic materials.
We first sketch an outline of the underlying theory and then turn to molecular crystals …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

NK Elumalai, A Uddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed progressively in efficiency over the last two
decades. Though it is promising, this technology is still far from realizing its full prospect …

Rylene and related diimides for organic electronics

X Zhan, A Facchetti, S Barlow, TJ Marks… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Organic electron‐transporting materials are essential for the fabrication of organic p‐n
junctions, photovoltaic cells, n‐channel field‐effect transistors, and complementary logic …

Molecular understanding of organic solar cells: the challenges

JL Brédas, JE Norton, J Cornil… - Accounts of chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Our objective in this Account is 3-fold. First, we provide an overview of the optical and
electronic processes that take place in a solid-state organic solar cell, which we define as a …

Nonlinear optical materials for the smart filtering of optical radiation

D Dini, MJF Calvete, M Hanack - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with> 1 V open circuit voltages

D Baran, T Kirchartz, S Wheeler, S Dimitrov… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Optimization of the energy levels at the donor–acceptor interface of organic solar cells has
driven their efficiencies to above 10%. However, further improvements towards efficiencies …

Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

K Vandewal, S Albrecht, ET Hoke, KR Graham… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Interfaces between organic electron-donating (D) and electron-accepting (A) materials have
the ability to generate charge carriers on illumination. Efficient organic solar cells require a …