Key molecular perspectives for high stability in organic photovoltaics

J Luke, EJ Yang, C Labanti, SY Park… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have rapidly improved in efficiency, with single-junction cells
now exceeding 18% efficiency. These improvements have been driven by the adoption of …

Configurable organic charge carriers toward stable perovskite photovoltaics

D Meng, J Xue, Y Zhao, E Zhang, R Zheng… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Due to their solution processability and unique photoelectric characteristics, perovskite solar
cells (PSCs) have shown considerable promise in the area of renewable energy. Although …

Single‐junction organic solar cells with 19.17% efficiency enabled by introducing one asymmetric guest acceptor

R Sun, Y Wu, X Yang, Y Gao, Z Chen, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been widely identified as an effective approach to obtain high‐
efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). However, for most ternary OSCs, the nonradiative …

Multi‐Selenophene Strategy Enables Dimeric Acceptors‐Based Organic Solar Cells with over 18.5% Efficiency

Y Bai, T Chen, X Ji, J Wang, W Zhao… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dimeric acceptor (DMA) becomes a promising alternative to small‐molecular and polymeric
acceptor‐based organic solar cells (OSCs) due to its well‐defined chemical structure, high …

Small energetic disorder enables ultralow energy losses in non‐fullerene organic solar cells

Y Shi, L Zhu, Y Yan, M **e, G Liang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The relatively large non‐radiative recombination energy loss (ΔE3) is the main source of
energy losses in organic solar cells (OSCs). The energetic disorder plays a crucial role in …

Optimizing Molecular Crystallinity and Suppressing Electron‐Phonon Coupling in Completely Non‐Fused Ring Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

T Dai, A Tang, Y Meng, C Dong, P Cong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High open‐circuit voltage (Voc) organic solar cells (OSCs) have received increasing
attention because of their promising application in tandem devices and indoor photovoltaics …

Alkoxy substitution on asymmetric conjugated molecule enabling over 18% efficiency in ternary organic solar cells by reducing nonradiative voltage loss

L **e, A Lan, Q Gu, S Yang, W Song, J Ge… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A ternary strategy is considered to be an efficient and simple way to further enhance the
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). However, the “structure–performance” …

Modulation of crystallization kinetics using a guest acceptor for high-performance organic solar cells with 19.8% efficiency

L **e, Z Chen, D Yang, X Yu, X Tong, J Ge… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlling the aggregation and crystallization kinetics of donors and acceptors is crucial for
forming the desired morphology of the active layer, which heavily determines the power …

Fused ring A–DA′ D–A (Y-series) non-fullerene acceptors: recent developments and design strategies for organic photovoltaics

P Murugan, T Hu, X Hu, Y Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we aim to explore the structure–property relationships of a library of Y-series
non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), their current advances, and present systematic (chemical …

A Medium‐Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor Enabling Organic Photovoltaic Cells with 30% Efficiency under Indoor Artificial Light

T Zhang, C An, Y Xu, P Bi, Z Chen, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The correlation between molecular structure and photovoltaic performance is lagging for
constructing high‐performance indoor organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Herein, this …