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 …

The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022‏ - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022‏ - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Harnessing the structure‐performance relationships in designing non‐fused ring acceptors for organic solar cells

A Mishra, GD Sharma - Angewandte Chemie, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The prerequisite for commercially viable organic solar cells (OSC) is to reduce the efficiency‐
stability‐cost gap. Therefore, the cost of organic materials should be reduced by minimizing …

Fused-ring electron acceptors for photovoltaics and beyond

J Wang, X Zhan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Emerging solar cells that convert clean and renewable solar energy to
electricity, such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs), have …

Understanding and suppressing non‐radiative recombination losses in non‐fullerene organic solar cells

Q Liu, K Vandewal - Advanced Materials, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells benefit from non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) due to their high absorption
coefficients, tunable frontier energy levels, and optical gaps, as well as their relatively high …

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

H Bin, L Gao, ZG Zhang, Y Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Simutaneously high open circuit voltage and high short circuit current density is a big
challenge for achieving high efficiency polymer solar cells due to the excitonic nature of …

Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers

X Gu, L Shaw, K Gu, MF Toney, Z Bao - Nature communications, 2018‏ - nature.com
The electronic devices that play a vital role in our daily life are primarily based on silicon and
are thus rigid, opaque, and relatively heavy. However, new electronics relying on polymer …

Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with> 1 V open circuit voltages

D Baran, T Kirchartz, S Wheeler, S Dimitrov… - Energy & …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Optimization of the energy levels at the donor–acceptor interface of organic solar cells has
driven their efficiencies to above 10%. However, further improvements towards efficiencies …