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 …

Recent progress of Y6‐derived asymmetric fused ring electron acceptors

Y Zhang, Y Ji, Y Zhang, W Zhang, H Bai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetric conjugated molecules can be broken through suitable synthetic strategies to
construct novel asymmetric molecules, which can largely broaden the material library. In the …

20.2% efficiency organic photovoltaics employing a π‐extension quinoxaline‐based acceptor with ordered arrangement

Z Chen, J Ge, W Song, X Tong, H Liu, X Yu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells, as a cutting‐edge sustainable renewable energy technology, possess a
myriad of potential applications, while the bottleneck problem of less than 20% efficiency …

Isomerization strategy on a non-fullerene guest acceptor for stable organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency

Z Chen, J Zhu, D Yang, W Song, J Shi, J Ge… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The strategy of isomerization plays a simple and effective role in optimizing the molecular
configurations and improving the performance of binary organic solar cells (OSCs) …

Enhancing photon utilization efficiency for high‐performance organic photovoltaic cells via regulating phase‐transition kinetics

P Bi, J Wang, Y Cui, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient photon utilization is key to achieving high‐performance organic photovoltaic (OPV)
cells. In this study, a multiscale fibril network morphology in a PBQx‐TCl: PBDB‐TF: eC9 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

High‐pressure fabrication of binary organic solar cells with high molecular weight D18 yields record 19.65% efficiency

H Lu, W Liu, G Ran, Z Liang, H Li, N Wei… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, inspired by the principles of a pressure cooker, we utilized a high‐pressure
method to address the processing challenges associated with high molecular weight …

Realizing 17.5% efficiency flexible organic solar cells via atomic-level chemical welding of silver nanowire electrodes

G Zeng, W Chen, X Chen, Y Hu, Y Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Solution processable flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) are urgently needed to boost the
efficiency and mechanical stability of flexible organic solar cells (OSCs) on a large scale …

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Z Jia, Q Ma, Z Chen, L Meng, N Jain… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing the energy loss of sub-cells is critical for high performance tandem organic solar
cells, while it is limited by the severe non-radiative voltage loss via the formation of non …

Structurally complementary star‐shaped unfused ring electron acceptors with simultaneously enhanced device parameters for ternary organic solar cells

XM Huang, N Chen, DN Ye, AG Zhong, H Liu, Z Li… - Solar Rrl, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary strategy has attracted extensive attention for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells
(BHJ OSCs) owing to their potentially improved light harvesting, cascaded energy levels …