Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

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 …

Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Z Bi, W Ma, Z Chen… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The large open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss is currently the main obstacle for pursuing the
highly efficient organic photovoltaics (OPVs). To address this issue, we construct the ternary …

Improved photovoltaic performance and robustness of all-polymer solar cells enabled by a polyfullerene guest acceptor

H Yu, Y Wang, X Zou, J Yin, X Shi, Y Li, H Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fullerene acceptors typically possess excellent electron-transporting properties and can
work as guest components in ternary organic solar cells to enhance the charge extraction …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX **a, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

Multiphase morphology with enhanced carrier lifetime via quaternary strategy enables high‐efficiency, thick‐film, and large‐area organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Yin, Y Li, S Li, T Chen, R Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous breakthrough of the efficiency of organic photovoltaics (OPVs), their
practical applications are on the agenda. However, the thickness tolerance and upscaling in …

A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

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 …

Revealing the underlying solvent effect on film morphology in high-efficiency organic solar cells through combined ex situ and in situ observations

R Ma, X Jiang, J Fu, T Zhu, C Yan, K Wu… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The morphological features and the film formation processes in high-performance donor–
acceptor binary photovoltaic blends cast from three representative solvents are carefully …

High-performance and eco-friendly semitransparent organic solar cells for greenhouse applications

D Wang, H Liu, Y Li, G Zhou, L Zhan, H Zhu, X Lu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) can potentially meet the huge demands of off-
grid and rooftop power supplies for advanced agricultural activities; yet, only a few efforts …