Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

Non-fullerene electron acceptors for use in organic solar cells

CB Nielsen, S Holliday, HY Chen… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The active layer in a solution processed organic photovoltaic device comprises
a light absorbing electron donor semiconductor, typically a polymer, and an electron …

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability.

W Zhao, D Qian, S Zhang, S Li, O Inganäs… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016 - europepmc.org
A nonfullerene-based polymer solar cell (PSC) that significantly outperforms fullerene-based
PSCs with respect to the power-conversion efficiency is demonstrated for the first time. An …

Side-chain isomerization on an n-type organic semiconductor ITIC acceptor makes 11.77% high efficiency polymer solar cells

Y Yang, ZG Zhang, H Bin, S Chen, L Gao… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Low bandgap n-type organic semiconductor (n-OS) ITIC has attracted great attention for the
application as an acceptor with medium bandgap p-type conjugated polymer as donor in …

Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

NK Elumalai, A Uddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed progressively in efficiency over the last two
decades. Though it is promising, this technology is still far from realizing its full prospect …

The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

Over 14% efficiency all-polymer solar cells enabled by a low bandgap polymer acceptor with low energy loss and efficient charge separation

Q Fan, Q An, Y Lin, Y **a, Q Li, M Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Obtaining both high open-circuit voltage (Voc) and short-circuit current density (Jsc) has
been a major challenge for efficient all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Herein, we developed …

Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

V Coropceanu, XK Chen, T Wang, Z Zheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface
between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in …

Conjugated polymer–small molecule alloy leads to high efficient ternary organic solar cells

J Zhang, Y Zhang, J Fang, K Lu, Z Wang… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Ternary organic solar cells are promising candidates for bulk heterojunction solar cells;
however, improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is quite challenging because the …

The role of bulk and interfacial morphology in charge generation, recombination, and extraction in non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, J Vollbrecht, AJ Gillett, SS **ao… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Some fundamental questions in the organic solar cell (OSC) community are related to the
role of bulk and interfacial morphology on key processes such as charge generation …