Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Organic photodetectors for next‐generation wearable electronics

PCY Chow, T Someya - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation wearable electronics will need to be mechanically flexible and stretchable
such that they can be conformally attached onto the human body. Photodetectors that are …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX **a, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles

J Kosco, M Bidwell, H Cha, T Martin, CT Howells… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Photocatalysts formed from a single organic semiconductor typically suffer from inefficient
intrinsic charge generation, which leads to low photocatalytic activities. We demonstrate that …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

Progress in stability of organic solar cells

L Duan, A Uddin - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The organic solar cell (OSC) is a promising emerging low‐cost thin film photovoltaics
technology. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs has overpassed 16% for single …

The performance-stability conundrum of BTP-based organic solar cells

Y Qin, N Balar, Z Peng, A Gadisa, I Angunawela… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
As the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic has been dramatically improved
to over 18%, achieving long-term stability is now crucial for applications of this promising …

The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

The bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaic, photodetector, and photocatalytic applications

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, J Kosco, N Gasparini… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors require an energetic offset in order to photogenerate free charge
carriers efficiently, owing to their inability to effectively screen charges. This is vitally …

The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

N Gasparini, A Salleo, I McCulloch… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Ternary organic solar cells (TSCs) contain a single three-component photoactive layer with
a wide absorption window, which is obtained without the need for multiple stacks …