PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics

Z Zheng, H Yao, L Ye, Y Xu, S Zhang, J Hou - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advantages such as being low cost, light weight, and flexible as well as having
low toxicity, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive interest. The field of OSCs …

Asymmetric nonfullerene small molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

C Li, H Fu, T **a, Y Sun - Advanced Energy Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetry breaking provides a new material design strategy for nonfullerene small molecule
acceptors (SMAs). The past 10 years have witnessed significant advances in asymmetric …

Over 19% efficiency organic solar cells by regulating multidimensional intermolecular interactions

C Han, J Wang, S Zhang, L Chen, F Bi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research on organic solar cells (OSCs) has progressed through material innovation and
device engineering. However, well‐known and ubiquitous intermolecular interactions, and …

Crystallography, morphology, electronic structure, and transport in non-fullerene/non-indacenodithienothiophene polymer: Y6 solar cells

W Zhu, AP Spencer, S Mukherjee… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Emerging nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) with crystalline domains enable high-performance
bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Thermal annealing is known to enhance the BHJ …

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 …

Fluorination effects on indacenodithienothiophene acceptor packing and electronic structure, end-group redistribution, and solar cell photovoltaic response

TJ Aldrich, M Matta, W Zhu, SM Swick… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Indacenodithienothiophene (IDTT)-based postfullerene electron acceptors, such as ITIC (2,
2′-[[6, 6, 12, 12-tetrakis (4-hexylphenyl)-6, 12-dihydrodithieno [2, 3-d: 2′, 3′-d′]-s …

A review of grazing incidence small‐and wide‐angle x‐ray scattering techniques for exploring the film morphology of organic solar cells

A Mahmood, JL Wang - Solar RRL, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a rapid evolution of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been achieved by virtue
of structural design of active layer materials and optimization of film morphology. Along with …

Asymmetrical ladder‐type donor‐induced polar small molecule acceptor to promote fill factors approaching 77% for high‐performance nonfullerene polymer solar …

W Gao, M Zhang, T Liu, R Ming, Q An, K Wu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, an effectual strategy of constructing polar small molecule acceptors (SMAs) to
promote fill factor (FF) of nonfullerene polymer solar cells (PSCs) is first reported. Three …

A simple phenyl group introduced at the tail of alkyl side chains of small molecular acceptors: new strategy to balance the crystallinity of acceptors and miscibility of …

Y Li, N Zheng, L Yu, S Wen, C Gao, M Sun… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research on fused‐ring small‐molecular‐acceptors (SMAs) has deeply advanced the
development of organic solar cells (OSCs). Compared to fruitful studies of ladder‐type cores …

Challenges to the success of commercial organic photovoltaic products

M Moser, A Wadsworth, N Gasparini… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the development of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials has led to
significant improvements in device performance; now closing in on the 20% efficiency …