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 …

Side-chain engineering of nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

Z Luo, T Xu, C Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thanks to their broad absorption spectra, easily modifiable molecular energy levels and
chemical structures, nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) have attracted …

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 …

Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%

C Chen, L Wang, W **a, K Qiu, C Guo, Z Gan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nanoscale fibrillar morphology, featuring long-range structural order, provides abundant
interfaces for efficient exciton dissociation and high-quality pathways for effective charge …

Benzo [d] thiazole based wide bandgap donor polymers enable 19.54% efficiency organic solar cells along with desirable batch‐to‐batch reproducibility and general …

B Pang, C Liao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The limited selection pool of high‐performance wide bandgap (WBG) polymer donors is a
bottleneck problem of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells (OSCs) that …

Sequential deposition of multicomponent bulk heterojunctions increases efficiency of organic solar cells

X Xu, W **g, H Meng, Y Guo, L Yu, R Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing tandem and multi‐blend organic solar cells (OSCs) is an effective way to
overcome the absorption limitations of conventional single‐junction devices. However, these …

Solid additive-assisted layer-by-layer processing for 19% efficiency binary organic solar cells

G Ding, T Chen, M Wang, X **a, C He, X Zheng, Y Li… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Morphology is of great significance to the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), since
appropriate morphology could not only promote the exciton dissociation, but also reduce the …

Multiphase morphology with enhanced carrier lifetime via quaternary strategy enables high‐efficiency, thick‐film, and large‐area organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Yin, Y Li, S Li, T Chen, R Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous breakthrough of the efficiency of organic photovoltaics (OPVs), their
practical applications are on the agenda. However, the thickness tolerance and upscaling in …

Co-adsorbed self-assembled monolayer enables high-performance perovskite and organic solar cells

D Li, Q Lian, T Du, R Ma, H Liu, Q Liang, Y Han… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have become pivotal in achieving high-performance
perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and organic solar cells (OSCs) by significantly minimizing …

Revealing the underlying solvent effect on film morphology in high-efficiency organic solar cells through combined ex situ and in situ observations

R Ma, X Jiang, J Fu, T Zhu, C Yan, K Wu… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The morphological features and the film formation processes in high-performance donor–
acceptor binary photovoltaic blends cast from three representative solvents are carefully …