Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Progress in stability of organic solar cells

L Duan, A Uddin - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The organic solar cell (OSC) is a promising emerging low‐cost thin film photovoltaics
technology. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs has overpassed 16% for single …

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by multicomponent photoactive layer based on one-pot polymerization

B Liu, H Sun, JW Lee, Z Jiang, J Qiao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Degradation of the kinetically trapped bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar
cells (OSCs) remains a grand challenge for their practical application. Herein, we …

Flexible and semitransparent organic solar cells

Y Li, G Xu, C Cui, Y Li - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible and semitransparent organic solar cells (OSCs) have been regarded as the most
promising photovoltaic devices for the application of OSCs in wearable energy resources …

Binary organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency and enhanced morphology stability enabled by asymmetric acceptors

S Chen, S Zhu, L Hong, W Deng, Y Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous improvement of efficiency and stability of organic solar cells (OSCs) for
commercialization remains a challenging task. Herein, we designed asymmetric acceptors …

A semitransparent inorganic perovskite film for overcoming ultraviolet light instability of organic solar cells and achieving 14.03% efficiency

W Chen, J Zhang, G Xu, R Xue, Y Li, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) can be unstable under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. To address this
issue and enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE), an inorganic‐perovskite/organic …

Analyzing the efficiency, stability and cost potential for fullerene-free organic photovoltaics in one figure of merit

N Li, I McCulloch, CJ Brabec - Energy & Environmental Science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of solution-processed organic photovoltaic (OPV)
devices continue increasing towards the 15% milestone. Recently-emerging non-fullerene …

Rational strategy to stabilize an unstable high‐efficiency binary nonfullerene organic solar cells with a third component

Y Zhu, A Gadisa, Z Peng, M Ghasemi… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Long device lifetime is still a missing key requirement in the commercialization of
nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) organic solar cell technology. Understanding thermodynamic …

Surface reconstruction for stable monolithic all‐inorganic perovskite/organic tandem solar cells with over 21% efficiency

W Chen, D Li, X Chen, H Chen, S Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of monolithic two‐terminal tandem solar cells (2T TSCs) offers the
possibility of pursuing high power conversion efficiency (PCE) by overcoming the single …

Enhancing photostability and power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells by a “sunscreen” ternary strategy

Y Cui, Z Chen, P Zhu, W Ma, H Zhu, X Liao… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
The field has witnessed the rapid growth in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic
solar cells (OSCs) over the past decade, reaching the threshold for practical …