Organic photovoltaics over three decades

O Inganäs - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic devices, over the last three
decades, has led to unexpected performance for an alternative choice of materials to convert …

From molecular packing structures to electronic processes: theoretical simulations for organic solar cells

G Han, Y Yi, Z Shuai - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular packing structures in the active layers have a crucial impact on the electronic
processes for organic solar cells. To date, however, it is still difficult to probe molecular self …

Efficient electronic tunneling governs transport in conducting polymer-insulator blends

ST Keene, W Michaels, A Melianas… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electronic transport models for conducting polymers (CPs) and blends focus on the
arrangement of conjugated chains, while the contributions of the nominally insulating …

Quasi‐homojunction organic nonfullerene photovoltaics featuring fundamentals distinct from bulk heterojunctions

Y Wang, MB Price, RS Bobba, H Lu, J Xue… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In contrast to classical bulk heterojunction (BHJ) in organic solar cells (OSCs), the quasi‐
homojunction (QHJ) with extremely low donor content (≤ 10 wt.%) is unusual and generally …

Efficient charge transport enables high efficiency in dilute donor organic solar cells

N Yao, J Wang, Z Chen, Q Bian, Y **a… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The donor/acceptor weight ratio is crucial for photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells
(OSCs). Here, we systematically investigate the photovoltaic behaviors of PM6: Y6 solar …

A Pyrazinyl Wide‐Bandgap Polymer Donor Yields 19.35% Efficiency in Tandem Organic Solar Cells

H Liang, K Ma, S Ding, W Zhao, X Si… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In series‐connected tandem organic solar cells (TOSCs), various light‐harvesting molecules
with complementary absorptions are explored with the aim of collaboratively utilizing solar …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

The Role of Mobility on Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in Polymer‐Based Solar Cells

S Shoaee, M Stolterfoht, D Neher - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors are of great interest for a broad range of optoelectronic applications
due to their solution processability, chemical tunability, highly scalable fabrication, and …

The impact of local morphology on organic donor/acceptor charge transfer states

YHL Lin, MA Fusella, BP Rand - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A major breakthrough in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) was the development of
the donor/acceptor heterojunction that aids in separating Coulombically bound excitons that …

Key tradeoffs limiting the performance of organic photovoltaics

I Ramirez, M Causa', Y Zhong… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2017 saw the publication of several new material systems that challenge the long‐
held notion that a driving force is necessary for efficient exciton dissociation in organic …