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 …

Ternary blend organic solar cells: understanding the morphology from recent progress

X Xu, Y Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ternary blend organic solar cells (TB‐OSCs) incorporating multiple donor and/or acceptor
materials into the active layer have emerged as a promising strategy to simultaneously …

Tandem organic solar cells with 20.6% efficiency enabled by reduced voltage losses

J Wang, Z Zheng, P Bi, Z Chen, Y Wang… - National Science …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Large voltage losses are the main obstacle for achieving high efficiency in organic solar
cells (OSCs). Here we construct ternary OSCs by introducing an asymmetric small molecule …

Rational control of sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution toward 17.18% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells

Y Sun, L Nian, Y Kan, Y Ren, Z Chen, L Zhu, M Zhang… - Joule, 2022‏ - cell.com
All-small-molecule organic solar cell (ASM OSC) with an efficiency of up to 17.18% is
demonstrated via combining layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition and solid additive methoxy …

A tandem organic photovoltaic cell with 19.6% efficiency enabled by light distribution control

J Wang, Z Zheng, Y Zu, Y Wang, X Liu… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite more potential in realizing higher photovoltaic performance, the highest power
conversion efficiency (PCE) of tandem organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells still lags behind that …

High‐Performance Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells Enabled by a Symmetric‐Asymmetric Alloy Acceptor with a Broad Composition Tolerance

Y Gao, X Yang, W Wang, R Sun, J Cui, Y Fu… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Using a combinatory blending strategy is demonstrated as a promising path for designing
efficient organic solar cells (OSCs) by boosting the short‐circuit current density and fill factor …

An asymmetric wide-bandgap acceptor simultaneously enabling highly efficient single-junction and tandem organic solar cells

J Wang, M Zhang, J Lin, Z Zheng, L Zhu, P Bi… - Energy & …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Ternary and tandem strategies are effective methods for improving the photovoltaic
performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here an asymmetric wide-bandgap nonfullerene …

All-small-molecule organic solar cells with 18.1% efficiency and enhanced stability enabled by improving light harvesting and nanoscale microstructure

Y Gao, X Yang, R Sun, LY Xu, Z Chen, M Zhang, H Zhu… - Joule, 2023‏ - cell.com
Achieving a bi-continuous morphology with appropriate and solidified nanoscale domains in
the active layers is a challenging task for all-small-molecule organic solar cells (all …

16.7%-efficiency ternary blended organic photovoltaic cells with PCBM as the acceptor additive to increase the open-circuit voltage and phase purity

MA Pan, TK Lau, Y Tang, YC Wu, T Liu, K Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) has seen rapid development in the past few years,
particularly, with reports on the use of a high performance nonfullerene electron acceptor …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …