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 …

Interface engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Tang, Y Bai, H Zhao, X Qin, Z Hu, C Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made dramatic advancements during the past decades
owing to the innovative material design and device structure optimization, with power …

Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents

S Luo, C Li, J Zhang, X Zou, H Zhao, K Ding… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-efficiency organic solar cells are often achieved using toxic halogenated solvents and
additives that are constrained in organic solar cells industry. Therefore, it is important to …

Benzo [d] thiazole based wide bandgap donor polymers enable 19.54% efficiency organic solar cells along with desirable batch‐to‐batch reproducibility and general …

B Pang, C Liao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The limited selection pool of high‐performance wide bandgap (WBG) polymer donors is a
bottleneck problem of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells (OSCs) that …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

Sequential deposition of multicomponent bulk heterojunctions increases efficiency of organic solar cells

X Xu, W **g, H Meng, Y Guo, L Yu, R Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing tandem and multi‐blend organic solar cells (OSCs) is an effective way to
overcome the absorption limitations of conventional single‐junction devices. However, these …

19.10% Efficiency and 80.5% Fill Factor Layer‐by‐Layer Organic Solar Cells Realized by 4‐Bis (2‐Thienyl) Pyrrole‐2, 5‐Dione Based Polymer Additives for Inducing …

M Zhou, C Liao, Y Duan, X Xu, L Yu, R Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The morphology plays a key role in determining the charge generation and collection
process, thus impacting the performances of organic solar cells (OSCs). The limited …

Unidirectional sidechain engineering to construct dual‐asymmetric acceptors for 19.23% efficiency organic solar cells with low energy loss and efficient charge …

Q Fan, R Ma, J Yang, J Gao, H Bai, W Su… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving both high open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc) to
boost power‐conversion efficiency (PCE) is a major challenge for organic solar cells …

19.28% Efficiency and Stable Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Introducing an NIR‐Absorbing Guest Acceptor

Q Fan, R Ma, Z Bi, X Liao, B Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing small‐molecule acceptor (SMA) Y‐SeNF with strong
intermolecular interaction and crystallinity is developed by combining selenophene‐fused …

In situ removable additive assisted organic solar cells achieving efficiency over 19% and fill factor exceeding 81%

L Kong, Z Zhang, N Zhao, Z Cai, J Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Additive engineering can precisely regulate the bulk‐heterojunction active layer morphology
with ideal domain size and purity, playing a critical role in development of organic solar cells …