Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

Progress in understanding degradation mechanisms and improving stability in organic photovoltaics

WR Mateker, MD McGehee - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the degradation mechanisms of organic photovoltaics is particularly
important, as they tend to degrade faster than their inorganic counterparts, such as silicon …

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by multicomponent photoactive layer based on one-pot polymerization

B Liu, H Sun, JW Lee, Z Jiang, J Qiao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Degradation of the kinetically trapped bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar
cells (OSCs) remains a grand challenge for their practical application. Herein, we …

Enabling Highly Efficient and Thermal‐Stable Polymer Solar Cells through Semi‐Alloy Acceptors Composed of a Hinge‐Like Dimer: A Versatile Do** Protocol

J Wan, T Wang, R Sun, X Wu, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The simultaneous improvement of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and thermal stability is
a critical scientific challenge in advancing the commercial applications of polymer solar …

Simultaneous enhanced efficiency and thermal stability in organic solar cells from a polymer acceptor additive

W Yang, Z Luo, R Sun, J Guo, T Wang, Y Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The thermal stability of organic solar cells is critical for practical applications of this emerging
technology. Thus, effective approaches and strategies need to be found to alleviate their …

Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

Imide-and amide-functionalized polymer semiconductors

X Guo, A Facchetti, TJ Marks - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Organic molecular and polymeric semiconductors are attractive for fabrication of cost-
effective, large-area, and mechanically flexible electronic devices via solution-based high …

From fullerene acceptors to non-fullerene acceptors: prospects and challenges in the stability of organic solar cells

EM Speller, AJ Clarke, J Luke, HKH Lee… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent emergence of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors has reinvigorated the field
of organic solar cells, already resulting in significant breakthroughs in their power …

Semi-crystalline photovoltaic polymers with efficiency exceeding 9% in a∼ 300 nm thick conventional single-cell device

TL Nguyen, H Choi, SJ Ko, MA Uddin… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a series of semi-crystalline, low band gap (LBG) polymers and demonstrate the
fabrication of highly efficient polymer solar cells (PSCs) in a thick single-cell architecture …

Stability of polymer solar cells

M Jørgensen, K Norrman, SA Gevorgyan… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) evolve in an exponential manner in the two key areas of
efficiency and stability. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) has in the last decade been …