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 …

What we have learnt from PM6: Y6

S Shoaee, HM Luong, J Song, Y Zou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past three years, remarkable advancements in organic solar cells (OSCs) have
emerged, propelled by the introduction of Y6—an innovative A‐DA'D‐A type small molecule …

Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%

C He, Z Chen, T Wang, Z Shen, Y Li, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enhancing the luminescence property without sacrificing the charge collection is one key to
high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs), while limited by the severe non-radiative …

A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

XK Chen, D Qian, Y Wang, T Kirchartz, W Tress, H Yao… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) come with
reduced non-radiative voltage losses (Δ V nr). Here we show that, in contrast to the energy …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

How to interpret transient absorption data?: an overview of case studies for application to organic solar cells

Y Tamai, Y Murata, S Natsuda… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is a time‐resolved spectroscopic technique that
can quantitatively observe temporal changes in the absorption spectrum associated with …

Narrowband organic photodetectors–towards miniaturized, spectroscopic sensing

Y Wang, J Kublitski, S **ng, F Dollinger, D Spoltore… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Omnipresent quality monitoring in food products, blood-oxygen measurement in lightweight
conformal wrist bands, or data-driven automated industrial production: Innovation in many …

Alkyl‐chain branching of non‐fullerene acceptors flanking conjugated side groups toward highly efficient organic solar cells

J Zhang, F Bai, I Angunawela, X Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Side‐chain modifications of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are essential for harvesting
their full potential in organic solar cells (OSC). Here, an effective alkyl‐chain‐branching …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …