Self-assembled monolayers for interfacial engineering in solution-processed thin-film electronic devices: design, fabrication, and applications

M Li, M Liu, F Qi, FR Lin, AKY Jen - Chemical Reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Interfacial engineering has long been a vital means of improving thin-film device
performance, especially for organic electronics, perovskites, and hybrid devices. It greatly …

Molecular engineering of contact interfaces for high-performance perovskite solar cells

FH Isikgor, S Zhumagali, LV T. Merino… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Metal-oxide-based charge-transport layers have played a pivotal role in the progress of
perovskite solar cells. Yet metal-oxide/perovskite interfaces are often highly defective, owing …

Self‐assembled interlayer enables high‐performance organic photovoltaics with power conversion efficiency exceeding 20%

S Guan, Y Li, C Xu, N Yin, C Xu, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interfacial layers (ILs) are prerequisites to form the selective charge transport for high‐
performance organic photovoltaics (OPVs) but mostly result in considerable parasitic …

20.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics employing a π‐extension quinoxaline‐based acceptor with ordered arrangement

Z Chen, J Ge, W Song, X Tong, H Liu, X Yu… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells, as a cutting‐edge sustainable renewable energy technology, possess a
myriad of potential applications, while the bottleneck problem of less than 20% efficiency …

Stability of organic solar cells: toward commercial applications

P Ding, D Yang, S Yang, Z Ge - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted a great deal of attention in the field of clean solar
energy due to their advantages of transparency, flexibility, low cost and light weight …

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 …

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 …

Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications

Y Li, X Huang, HKM Sheriff Jr, SR Forrest - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
The narrow and intense absorption spectra of organic materials open up the opportunity to
develop efficient organic photovoltaic devices that are qualitatively different from other …

Interface engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Tang, Y Bai, H Zhao, X Qin, Z Hu, C Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made dramatic advancements during the past decades
owing to the innovative material design and device structure optimization, with power …

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 …