Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals

T Kato, M Yoshio, T Ichikawa, B Soberats… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The nanosegregated structures of columnar, smectic and bicontinuous cubic liquid crystals
can provide well-organized, nano-and sub-nanosized 1D, 2D and 3D channels capable of …

Nitrogen-containing perylene diimides: Molecular design, robust aggregated structures, and advances in n-type organic semiconductors

S Kumagai, H Ishii, G Watanabe, CP Yu… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have attracted much attention because of their
potential applications for flexible and printed electronic devices and thus have been …

Electrostatic phenomena in organic semiconductors: fundamentals and implications for photovoltaics

G D'Avino, L Muccioli, F Castet… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This review summarizes the current understanding of electrostatic phenomena in ordered
and disordered organic semiconductors, outlines numerical schemes developed for …

Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells

C Poelking, M Tietze, C Elschner, S Olthof, D Hertel… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Structural order in organic solar cells is paramount: it reduces energetic disorder, boosts
charge and exciton mobilities, and assists exciton splitting. Owing to spatial localization of …

From molecular packing structures to electronic processes: theoretical simulations for organic solar cells

G Han, Y Yi, Z Shuai - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular packing structures in the active layers have a crucial impact on the electronic
processes for organic solar cells. To date, however, it is still difficult to probe molecular self …

Charge separation and recombination at polymer–fullerene heterojunctions: Delocalization and hybridization effects

G D'Avino, L Muccioli, Y Olivier… - The journal of physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We address charge separation and recombination in polymer/fullerene solar cells with a
multiscale modeling built from accurate atomistic inputs and accounting for disorder …

Local excitation/charge-transfer hybridization simultaneously promotes charge generation and reduces nonradiative voltage loss in nonfullerene organic solar cells

G Han, Y Yi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
High power conversion efficiencies in state-of-the-art nonfullerene organic solar cells (NF
OSCs) call for elucidation of the underlying working mechanisms of both high photocurrent …

Simulating charge transport in organic semiconductors and devices: a review

C Groves - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Charge transport simulation can be a valuable tool to better understand, optimise and
design organic transistors (OTFTs), photovoltaics (OPVs), and light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) …

Design rules for organic donor–acceptor heterojunctions: pathway for charge splitting and detrap**

C Poelking, D Andrienko - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Organic solar cells rely on the conversion of a Frenkel exciton into free charges via a charge-
transfer state formed on a molecular donor–acceptor pair. These charge-transfer states are …