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 …

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 …

Manipulating charge transfer and transport via intermediary electron acceptor channels enables 19.3% efficiency organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Y Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Balancing and improving the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density
(Jsc) synergistically has always been the critical point for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) to …

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Z Jia, Q Ma, Z Chen, L Meng, N Jain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing the energy loss of sub-cells is critical for high performance tandem organic solar
cells, while it is limited by the severe non-radiative voltage loss via the formation of non …

Donor end‐capped alkyl chain length dependent non‐radiative energy loss in all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

L Zhang, R Sun, Z Zhang, J Zhang, Q Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A critical bottleneck for further efficiency breakthroughs in organic solar cells (OSCs) is to
minimize the non‐radiative energy loss (eΔVnr) while maximizing the charge generation …

A high‐performance nonfused wide‐bandgap acceptor for versatile photovoltaic applications

P Bi, S Zhang, J Ren, Z Chen, Z Zheng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wide‐bandgap (WBG) nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) with nonfused conjugated structures
play a critical role in organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, NFAs named GS‐OEH, GS …

Optimization of charge management and energy loss in all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

L Zhang, D Deng, K Lu, Z Wei - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
All‐small‐molecule organic solar cells (ASM‐OSCs) have received tremendous attention in
recent decades because of their advantages over their polymer counterparts. These …

Understanding the role of order in Y‐series non‐fullerene solar cells to realize high open‐circuit voltages

L Perdigón‐Toro, LQ Phuong, F Eller… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) as used in state‐of‐the‐art organic solar cells feature highly
crystalline layers that go along with low energetic disorder. Here, the crucial role of energetic …

Porous organic polymers in solar cells

T Zhang, VG Gregoriou, N Gasparini… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to their unique porosity and large surface area, porous organic polymers (POPs)
have shown their presence in numerous novel applications. The tunability and functionality …

Quantifying the effect of energetic disorder on organic solar cell energy loss

J Bertrandie, M Gui, A Sharma, W Alsufyani… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Understanding the factors affecting energy loss in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is
imperative to achieve further improvements in their efficiency and to establish design rules …