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 …

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 …

Progress and prospects of the morphology of non-fullerene acceptor based high-efficiency organic solar cells

L Zhu, M Zhang, W Zhong, S Leng, G Zhou… - Energy & …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
With the development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), the power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been continuously improved and has exceeded …

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, T Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Broadening the optical absorption of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials by enhancing the
intramolecular push-pull effect is a general and effective method to improve the power …

Additive-induced miscibility regulation and hierarchical morphology enable 17.5% binary organic solar cells

J Lv, H Tang, J Huang, C Yan, K Liu, Q Yang… - Energy & …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Due to barrierless free charge generation, low charge trap**, and high charge mobilities,
the PM6: Y6 organic solar cell (OSC) achieves an excellent power conversion efficiency …

Single‐junction polymer solar cells with 16.35% efficiency enabled by a platinum (II) complexation strategy

X Xu, K Feng, Z Bi, W Ma, G Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
A new strategy of platinum (II) complexation is developed to regulate the crystallinity and
molecular packing of polynitrogen heterocyclic polymers, optimize the morphology of the …

Wide bandgap polymer with narrow photon harvesting in visible light range enables efficient semitransparent organic photovoltaics

C Xu, K **, Z **ao, Z Zhao, X Ma… - Advanced Functional …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wide bandgap polymer D18 with narrow photon harvesting in visible light range and small
molecule N3 with near‐infrared photon harvesting are adopted for building semitransparent …

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 …

Recent Progress in All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells

H Gao, Y Sun, L Meng, C Han, X Wan, Y Chen - Small, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Active layer material plays a critical role in promoting the performance of an organic solar
cell (OSC). Small‐molecule (SM) materials have the merits of well‐defined chemical …

15.34% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells with an improved fill factor enabled by a fullerene additive

D Hu, Q Yang, H Chen, F Wobben… - Energy & …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Solution processed organic solar cells (OSCs) composed of all small molecules (ASM) are
promising for production on an industrial scale owing to the properties of small molecules …