Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors

OV Mikhnenko, PWM Blom, TQ Nguyen - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The purpose of this review is to provide a basic physical description of the exciton diffusion
in organic semiconductors. Furthermore, experimental methods that are used to measure …

How to interpret transient absorption data?: an overview of case studies for application to organic solar cells

Y Tamai, Y Murata, S Natsuda… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is a time‐resolved spectroscopic technique that
can quantitatively observe temporal changes in the absorption spectrum associated with …

Seeded growth of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

AM Evans, LR Parent, NC Flanders, RP Bisbey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Polymerization of monomers into periodic two-dimensional networks provides structurally
precise, layered macromolecular sheets that exhibit desirable mechanical, optoelectronic …

Nanoscale strategies for light harvesting

S Kundu, A Patra - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

Exciton diffusion in conjugated polymers: from fundamental understanding to improvement in photovoltaic conversion efficiency

Y Tamai, H Ohkita, H Benten, S Ito - The journal of physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton diffusion plays a central role in the photovoltaic conversion in organic
photovoltaics (OPVs). Upon light absorption, singlet excitons are promptly generated in …

Coherent ultrafast charge transfer in an organic photovoltaic blend

SM Falke, CA Rozzi, D Brida, M Maiuri, M Amato… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Blends of conjugated polymers and fullerene derivatives are prototype systems for organic
photovoltaic devices. The primary charge-generation mechanism involves a light-induced …

Exciton Diffusion and Annihilation in an sp2 Carbon-Conjugated Covalent Organic Framework

X Zhang, K Geng, D Jiang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To optimize the optical and optoelectronic functionalities of two-dimensional (2D) covalent
organic frameworks (COFs), detailed properties of emissive and nonradiative pathways after …

A new frontier in exciton transport: transient delocalization

AJ Sneyd, D Beljonne, A Rao - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient exciton transport is crucial to the application of organic semiconductors (OSCs) in
light-harvesting devices. While the physics of exciton transport in highly disordered media is …

Recent research progress of polymer donor/polymer acceptor blend solar cells

H Benten, D Mori, H Ohkita, S Ito - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer/polymer blend solar cells based on a blend of two types of conjugated polymers
acting as an electron donor (hole transport) and acceptor (electron transport) have recently …