Organic and perovskite solar cells: Working principles, materials and interfaces

N Marinova, S Valero, JL Delgado - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
In the last decades organic solar cells (OSCs) have been considered as a promising
photovoltaic technology with the potential to provide reasonable power conversion …

Organic solar cells: understanding the role of Förster resonance energy transfer

K Feron, WJ Belcher, CJ Fell, PC Dastoor - International journal of …, 2012 - mdpi.com
Organic solar cells have the potential to become a low-cost sustainable energy source.
Understanding the photoconversion mechanism is key to the design of efficient organic solar …

Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

BA Collins, Z Li, JR Tumbleston, E Gann… - Advanced Energy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of morphology to organic solar cell performance is well known, but to date,
the lack of quantitative, nanoscale and statistical morphological information has hindered …

Materials design considerations for charge generation in organic solar cells

SD Dimitrov, JR Durrant - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
This article reviews some of our recent progress on materials design guidelines for
photoinduced charge generation in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells. Over the last 7 …

Unequal partnership: asymmetric roles of polymeric donor and fullerene acceptor in generating free charge

BM Savoie, A Rao, AA Bakulin, S Gelinas… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Natural photosynthetic complexes accomplish the rapid conversion of photoexcitations into
spatially separated electrons and holes through precise hierarchical ordering of …

On the energetic dependence of charge separation in low-band-gap polymer/fullerene blends

SD Dimitrov, AA Bakulin, CB Nielsen… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The energetic driving force required to drive charge separation across donor/acceptor
heterojunctions is a key consideration for organic optoelectronic devices. Herein we report a …

The effect of solvent additives on morphology and excited-state dynamics in PCPDTBT: PCBM photovoltaic blends

F Etzold, IA Howard, N Forler, DM Cho… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The dependence of the thin film morphology and excited-state dynamics for the low-
bandgap donor–acceptor copolymer poly [2, 6-(4, 4-bis-(2-ethylhexyl)-4 H-cyclopenta [2, 1 …

Singlet exciton lifetimes in conjugated polymer films for organic solar cells

SD Dimitrov, BC Schroeder, CB Nielsen, H Bronstein… - Polymers, 2016 - mdpi.com
The lifetime of singlet excitons in conjugated polymer films is a key factor taken into account
during organic solar cell device optimization. It determines the singlet exciton diffusion …

Charge-transfer state dynamics following hole and electron transfer in organic photovoltaic devices

AA Bakulin, SD Dimitrov, A Rao… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The formation of bound electron–hole pairs, also called charge-transfer (CT) states, in
organic-based photovoltaic devices is one of the dominant loss mechanisms hindering …

Fused dithienogermolodithiophene low band gap polymers for high-performance organic solar cells without processing additives

H Zhong, Z Li, F Deledalle, EC Fregoso… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of a novel ladder-type fused ring donor, dithienogermolodithiophene
, in which two thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene units are held coplanar by a bridging dialkyl …