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 …

Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics

J Wang, Y **e, K Chen, H Wu, JM Hodgkiss… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Boosted by the fast development of non-fullerene acceptors, organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
have achieved breakthrough power conversion efficiencies—in excess of 20% and …

High‐pressure fabrication of binary organic solar cells with high molecular weight D18 yields record 19.65% efficiency

H Lu, W Liu, G Ran, Z Liang, H Li, N Wei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this work, inspired by the principles of a pressure cooker, we utilized a high‐pressure
method to address the processing challenges associated with high molecular weight …

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 …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

Manipulating the D: A interfacial energetics and intermolecular packing for 19.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics

C He, Y Pan, Y Ouyang, Q Shen, Y Gao… - Energy & …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulating the donor: acceptor (D: A) energetics, eg, the highest occupied molecular
orbital (HOMO) offset, is the key to balancing the charge separation and charge …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022‏ - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

A new polymer donor enables binary all‐polymer organic photovoltaic cells with 18% efficiency and excellent mechanical robustness

J Wang, Y Cui, Y Xu, K **an, P Bi, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of polymerized small‐molecule acceptors has boosted the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of all‐polymer organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells to 17 …

Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency

P Bi, S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Xu, Y Cui, T Zhang, J Ren… - Joule, 2021‏ - cell.com
Reducing non-radiative charge recombination is of critical importance to achieving high-
performance organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The correlation between the exciton …

Organic solar cells with 18% efficiency enabled by an alloy acceptor: a two‐in‐one strategy

F Liu, L Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhou, Q Yue… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The trade‐off between the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc)
has become the core of current organic photovoltaic research, and realizing the minimum …