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 …

Recent progress in π-conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics: solar cells and photodetectors

C Liu, L Shao, S Chen, Z Hu, H Cai, F Huang - Progress in Polymer …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated polymers show promising potential in the application of organic
photovoltaics, including organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) …

Progress of conjugated polymers as emerging thermoelectric materials

S Wang, G Zuo, J Kim, H Sirringhaus - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Thanks to the combined efforts of scientists in several research fields, the preceding decade
has witnessed considerable progress in the use of conjugated polymers as emerging …

Near‐infrared materials: the turning point of organic photovoltaics

D Meng, R Zheng, Y Zhao, E Zhang, L Dou… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing organic semiconductors have opened up many
exciting opportunities for organic photovoltaic (OPV) research. For example, new …

Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Low band gap conjugated semiconducting polymers

MC Scharber, NS Sariciftci - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Important parameters of an organic semiconductor material are the electronic band gap (Eg)
and the position of highest occupied and lowest unoccupied bands versus vacuum. These …

Narrowing the band gap: the key to high-performance organic photovoltaics

P Cheng, Y Yang - Accounts of chemical research, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have attracted considerable attention in the last
two decades to overcome the terawatt energy challenge and serious environmental …

An unfused‐core‐based nonfullerene acceptor enables high‐efficiency organic solar cells with excellent morphological stability at high temperatures

S Li, L Zhan, F Liu, J Ren, M Shi, CZ Li… - Advanced …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most nonfullerene acceptors developed so far for high‐performance organic solar cells
(OSCs) are designed in planar molecular geometry containing a fused‐ring core. In this …