Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Methylammonium-free wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites for tandem photovoltaics

AJ Ramadan, RDJ Oliver, MB Johnston… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the performance of solar cells based on metal halide perovskite
semiconductors has skyrocketed, now rivalling established technologies such as crystalline …

19.31% binary organic solar cell and low non-radiative recombination enabled by non-monotonic intermediate state transition

J Fu, PWK Fong, H Liu, CS Huang, X Lu, S Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to
both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

All-polymer organic solar cells with nano-to-micron hierarchical morphology and large light receiving angle

R Zeng, L Zhu, M Zhang, W Zhong, G Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Distributed photovoltaics in living environment harvest the sunlight in different incident
angles throughout the day. The development of planer solar cells with large light-receiving …

Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

L Zhu, M Zhang, J Xu, C Li, J Yan, G Zhou, W Zhong… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
In organic photovoltaics, morphological control of donor and acceptor domains on the
nanoscale is the key for enabling efficient exciton diffusion and dissociation, carrier transport …

Realizing 19.05% efficiency polymer solar cells by progressively improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination

K Chong, X Xu, H Meng, J Xue, L Yu, W Ma… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination are critically important
to minimize the loss of absorbed photons and improve the device performance of polymer …

Tandem organic solar cell with 20.2% efficiency

Z Zheng, J Wang, P Bi, J Ren, Y Wang, Y Yang, X Liu… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
As a promising strategy for enhancing light utilization, constructing cell with tandem structure
exhibits great potential in achieving high efficiency, which encourages the field of organic …

Achieving 20.8% organic solar cells via additive-assisted layer-by-layer fabrication with bulk pin structure and improved optical management

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, Z Wang, W Zhong, J Zhuang… - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
Additive-assisted layer-by-layer (LBL) deposition affords interpenetrating fibril network active
layer morphology with a bulk pin feature and proper vertical segregation in organic solar …

Recent progress of Y6‐derived asymmetric fused ring electron acceptors

Y Zhang, Y Ji, Y Zhang, W Zhang, H Bai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetric conjugated molecules can be broken through suitable synthetic strategies to
construct novel asymmetric molecules, which can largely broaden the material library. In the …