Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Intrinsic non-radiative voltage losses in fullerene-based organic solar cells

J Benduhn, K Tvingstedt, F Piersimoni, S Ullbrich… - Nature Energy, 2017 - nature.com
Organic solar cells demonstrate external quantum efficiencies and fill factors approaching
those of conventional photovoltaic technologies. However, as compared with the optical gap …

High performance all-polymer solar cells by synergistic effects of fine-tuned crystallinity and solvent annealing

Z Li, X Xu, W Zhang, X Meng, W Ma… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Growing interests have been devoted to the design of polymer acceptors as potential
replacement for fullerene derivatives for high-performance all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) …

Design of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)‐Based small molecules for organic‐solar‐cell applications

A Tang, C Zhan, J Yao, E Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
After the first report in 2008, diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)‐based small‐molecule photovoltaic
materials have been intensively explored. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) for the …

Simultaneously achieved high open‐circuit voltage and efficient charge generation by fine‐tuning charge‐transfer driving force in nonfullerene polymer solar cells

A Tang, B **ao, Y Wang, F Gao… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To maximize the short‐circuit current density (JSC) and the open circuit voltage (VOC)
simultaneously is a highly important but challenging issue in organic solar cells (OSCs). In …

High-efficiency nonfullerene polymer solar cells with medium bandgap polymer donor and narrow bandgap organic semiconductor acceptor.

L Gao, ZG Zhang, H Bin, L Xue, Y Yang… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016 - europepmc.org
A nonfullerene polymer solar cell with a high efficiency of 9.26% is realized by using
benzodithiophene-alt-fluorobenzotriazole copolymer J51 as a medium-bandgap polymer …

Emissive and charge-generating donor–acceptor interfaces for organic optoelectronics with low voltage losses

S Ullbrich, J Benduhn, X Jia, VC Nikolis, K Tvingstedt… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Intermolecular charge-transfer states at the interface between electron donating (D) and
accepting (A) materials are crucial for the operation of organic solar cells but can also be …

Recent advances of furan and its derivatives based semiconductor materials for organic photovoltaics

B Zheng, L Huo - Small Methods, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The state‐of‐the‐art bulk‐heterojunction (BHJ)‐type organic solar cells (OSCs) have
exhibited power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of exceeding 18%. Thereinto, thiophene and …

Non-fullerene acceptor with low energy loss and high external quantum efficiency: towards high performance polymer solar cells

Y Li, X Liu, FP Wu, Y Zhou, ZQ Jiang, B Song… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A non-fullerene electron acceptor bearing a fused 10-heterocyclic ring
(indacenodithiopheno-indacenodithiophene) with a narrow band gap (∼ 1.5 eV) was …