Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

V Coropceanu, XK Chen, T Wang, Z Zheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface
between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible solar and thermal energy conversion devices: Organic photovoltaics (OPVs), organic thermoelectric generators (OTEGs) and hybrid PV-TEG systems

A Sharma, S Masoumi, D Gedefaw… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar and thermal energy conversion are two major renewable energy technologies highly
sought after in the past two decades by academia, industry, and policymakers. Besides the …

The energy level conundrum of organic semiconductors in solar cells

J Bertrandie, J Han, CSP De Castro… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The frontier molecular energy levels of organic semiconductors are decisive for their
fundamental function and efficiency in optoelectronics. However, the precise determination …

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 …

Barrierless free charge generation in the high‐performance PM6: Y6 bulk heterojunction non‐fullerene solar cell

L Perdigón‐Toro, H Zhang, A Markina… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are currently experiencing a second golden age thanks to the
development of novel non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Surprisingly, some of these blends …

Hybridization of local exciton and charge-transfer states reduces nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

FD Eisner, M Azzouzi, Z Fei, X Hou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A number of recent studies have shown that the nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar
cells can be suppressed in systems with low energetic offsets between donor and acceptor …

Map** the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells

X Li, Q Zhang, J Yu, Y Xu, R Zhang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Energy level alignment (ELA) at donor (D)-acceptor (A) heterojunctions is essential for
understanding the charge generation and recombination process in organic photovoltaic …

Sub-picosecond charge-transfer at near-zero driving force in polymer: non-fullerene acceptor blends and bilayers

Y Zhong, M Causa', GJ Moore, P Krauspe… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) show record efficiency of 16
to 17% and increased photovoltage owing to the low driving force for interfacial charge …

Marcus hole transfer governs charge generation and device operation in nonfullerene organic solar cells

G Zhou, M Zhang, Z Chen, J Zhang, L Zhan… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A critical fundamental question regarding how the energetics governs the hole transfer (HT)
rate, efficiency, and device performance in nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) organic solar cells …

Influence of static disorder of charge transfer state on voltage loss in organic photovoltaics

J Yan, E Rezasoltani, M Azzouzi, F Eisner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Spectroscopic measurements of charge transfer (CT) states provide valuable insight into the
voltage losses in organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Correct interpretation of CT-state spectra …