Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

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 …

Achieving 19% power conversion efficiency in planar‐mixed heterojunction organic solar cells using a pseudosymmetric electron acceptor

W Gao, F Qi, Z Peng, FR Lin, K Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 19% is realized in planar‐mixed
heterojunction (PMHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) by adopting the asymmetric selenium …

Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture

K Jiang, J Zhang, C Zhong, FR Lin, F Qi, Q Li, Z Peng… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
At present, high-performance organic photovoltaics mostly adopt a bulk-heterojunction
architecture, in which exciton dissociation is facilitated by charge-transfer states formed at …

Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Z Bi, W Ma, Z Chen… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The large open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss is currently the main obstacle for pursuing the
highly efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). To address this issue, we construct the ternary …

Dimerized small-molecule acceptors enable efficient and stable organic solar cells

C Sun, JW Lee, C Lee, D Lee, S Cho, SK Kwon, BJ Kim… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of small-molecule acceptor (SMA)-based organic
solar cells (OSCs) have increased remarkably, but their long-term stability is insufficient for …

Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Y Fu, C Guo, D Li, J Cheng, W Sun… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The photoactive layer of organic solar cells consists of p-type electron donors and n-type
electron acceptors, which phase separate to form fine and continuous networks for charge …

A guest-assisted molecular-organization approach for> 17% efficiency organic solar cells using environmentally friendly solvents

H Chen, R Zhang, X Chen, G Zeng, L Kobera… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of laboratory-sized organic solar cells (OSCs),
usually processed from low-boiling-point and toxic solvents, have reached high values of …

Unidirectional sidechain engineering to construct dual‐asymmetric acceptors for 19.23% efficiency organic solar cells with low energy loss and efficient charge …

Q Fan, R Ma, J Yang, J Gao, H Bai, W Su… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving both high open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc) to
boost power‐conversion efficiency (PCE) is a major challenge for organic solar cells …

19.28% Efficiency and Stable Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Introducing an NIR‐Absorbing Guest Acceptor

Q Fan, R Ma, Z Bi, X Liao, B Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing small‐molecule acceptor (SMA) Y‐SeNF with strong
intermolecular interaction and crystallinity is developed by combining selenophene‐fused …