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 …

Non-fullerene acceptor with asymmetric structure and phenyl-substituted alkyl side chain for 20.2% efficiency organic solar cells

Y Jiang, S Sun, R Xu, F Liu, X Miao, G Ran, K Liu, Y Yi… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
For organic solar cells (OSCs), bridging the gap with Shockley–Queisser limit necessitates
simultaneously reducing the energy loss for a high open-circuit voltage, improving light …

Binary organic solar cells with 19.2% efficiency enabled by solid additive

J Wang, Y Wang, P Bi, Z Chen, J Qiao, J Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology optimization is critical for achieving high efficiency and stable bulk‐
heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the use of 3, 5 …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

K Liu, Y Jiang, G Ran, F Liu, W Zhang, X Zhu - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The development of high-performance binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with a simplified
working mechanism and fabrication process is highly desirable to promote the commercial …

All-polymer organic solar cells with nano-to-micron hierarchical morphology and large light receiving angle

R Zeng, L Zhu, M Zhang, W Zhong, G Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Distributed photovoltaics in living environment harvest the sunlight in different incident
angles throughout the day. The development of planer solar cells with large light-receiving …

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 …

Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture

K Jiang, J Zhang, C Zhong, FR Lin, F Qi, Q Li, Z Peng… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
At present, high-performance organic photovoltaics mostly adopt a bulk-heterojunction
architecture, in which exciton dissociation is facilitated by charge-transfer states formed at …

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 …