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 …

Morphology control in organic solar cells

F Zhao, C Wang, X Zhan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) can directly convert the sunlight into electrical energy and
present some advantages, such as low cost, light weight, flexibility, semitransparency, and …

Functional soft materials from blue phase liquid crystals

K Bagchi, T Emeršič, JA Martínez-González… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals are chiral fluids wherein millions of molecules self-assemble
into cubic lattices that are on the order of hundred nanometers. As the unit cell sizes of BPs …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method

Y Yuan, G Giri, AL Ayzner, AP Zoombelt… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Organic semiconductors with higher carrier mobility and better transparency have been
actively pursued for numerous applications, such as flat-panel display backplane and …

A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

J You, L Dou, K Yoshimura, T Kato, K Ohya… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
An effective way to improve polymer solar cell efficiency is to use a tandem structure, as a
broader part of the spectrum of solar radiation is used and the thermalization loss of photon …

25th anniversary article: a decade of organic/polymeric photovoltaic research

L Dou, J You, Z Hong, Z Xu, G Li, RA Street… - Advanced …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology has been developed and improved from a fancy
concept with less than 1% power conversion efficiency (PCE) to over 10% PCE, particularly …

Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency

Y Sun, GC Welch, WL Leong, CJ Takacs, GC Bazan… - Nature materials, 2012‏ - nature.com
Organic photovoltaic devices that can be fabricated by simple processing techniques are
under intense investigation in academic and industrial laboratories because of their …

Vapor phase infiltration (VPI) for transforming polymers into organic–inorganic hybrid materials: a critical review of current progress and future challenges

CZ Leng, MD Losego - Materials Horizons, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
This review critically assesses the state-of-knowledge for vapor phase infiltration (VPI)
processing science, an emerging gas phase processing scheme for producing organic …

Morphology of organic photovoltaic non-fullerene acceptors investigated by grazing incidence X-ray scattering techniques

Y **ao, X Lu - Materials Today Nano, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Bulk heterojunction morphology in terms of molecular packing and phase separation is one
of the most critical factors determining the device performance of organic photovoltaic …