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 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

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 …

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 …

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 …, 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 …

Suppressing the energetic disorder of all-polymer solar cells enables over 18% efficiency

T Zhang, Y Xu, H Yao, J Zhang, P Bi, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) usually have a complex blend morphology due to their
higher probability of chain entanglement. Under these conditions, the larger energetic …

Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

J Du, K Hu, J Zhang, L Meng, J Yue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs)
have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA'DA small molecule …

The Development of Quinoxaline‐Based Electron Acceptors for High Performance Organic Solar Cells

H Liu, Y Geng, Z **ao, L Ding, J Du, A Tang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the recent advances of organic solar cells (OSCs), quinoxaline (Qx)‐based nonfullerene
acceptors (QxNFAs) have attracted lots of attention and enabled the recorded power …

Material design and device fabrication strategies for stretchable organic solar cells

JS Park, GU Kim, S Lee, JW Lee, S Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs)
have greatly enhanced their commercial viability. Considering the technical standards (eg …

High‐Efficiency and Mechanically Robust All‐Polymer Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Optimized Fibril Network Morphology

L Ma, Y Cui, J Zhang, K **an, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells possessing high photovoltaic performance and
mechanical robustness are promising candidates for flexible wearable devices. However …