A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z **ao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

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 …

The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances

Z Wang, K Gao, Y Kan, M Zhang, C Qiu, L Zhu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The active layer morphology transition of organic photovoltaics under non-equilibrium
conditions are of vital importance in determining the device power conversion efficiency and …

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 …

Unraveling the microstructure‐related device stability for polymer solar cells based on nonfullerene small‐molecular acceptors

X Du, T Heumueller, W Gruber, O Almora… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) has surpassed the
17% baseline, the long‐term stability of highly efficient OSCs is essential for the practical …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

Thermodynamic properties and molecular packing explain performance and processing procedures of three D18: NFA organic solar cells

Z Wang, Z Peng, Z **ao, D Seyitliyev… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on D18: Y6 have recently exhibited a record power
conversion efficiency of over 18%. The initial work is extended and the device performance …

The future of organic photovoltaics

KA Mazzio, CK Luscombe - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing global demand for energy, along with dwindling fossil fuel resources and a better
understanding of the hidden costs associated with these energy sources, have spurred …

Quantitative determination of organic semiconductor microstructure from the molecular to device scale

J Rivnay, SCB Mannsfeld, CE Miller, A Salleo… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Organic semiconductors offer the potential for large-area deposition on substrates of flexible
or unique form factors and can be deposited at ambient conditions at low cost. They can be …