Recent progress of all-polymer solar cells–From chemical structure and device physics to photovoltaic performance

H Yin, C Yan, H Hu, JKW Ho, X Zhan, G Li… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Single junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have now achieved power conversion efficiencies
(PCEs) exceeding 17%. Most of these high performance OSCs contain fullerene acceptors …

Non‐volatile perfluorophenyl‐based additive for enhanced efficiency and thermal stability of nonfullerene organic solar cells via supramolecular fluorinated …

KE Hung, YS Lin, YJ Xue, HR Yang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A novel non‐volatile additive, fluorinated bis (perfluorophenyl) pimelate (BF7), is
demonstrated to effectively improve both the efficiency and thermal stability of a highly …

Designing a ternary photovoltaic cell for indoor light harvesting with a power conversion efficiency exceeding 20%

H Yin, JKW Ho, SH Cheung, RJ Yan, KL Chiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We used several polymers as the ternary components to demonstrate a ternary strategy to
improve the performance of PCDTBT: PC71BM devices under 1 sun and indoor illumination …

PTB7 and PTB7-Th as universal polymers to evaluate materials development aspects of organic solar cells including interfacial layers, new fullerenes, and non …

AR Tetreault, MT Dang, TP Bender - Synthetic Metals, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymeric semiconductor based solar cells (PSCs) present attractive properties such as
being lightweight, mechanically flexible, and enabling low-cost production. Everything …

Efficient large area organic solar cells processed by blade‐coating with single‐component green solvent

K Zhang, Z Chen, A Armin, S Dong, R **a, HL Yip… - Solar Rrl, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
While the performance of laboratory‐scale organic solar cells (OSCs) continues to grow,
development of high efficiency large area OSCs remains a big challenge. Although a few …

Enhanced surface passivation of lead sulfide quantum dots for short-wavelength photodetectors

S Yin, CHY Ho, S Ding, X Fu, L Zhu, J Gullett… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots are promising solution-processed materials for short-wave
infrared (SWIR) photodetectors due to their tunable band gap and solution processability …

Porphyrin-based thick-film bulk-heterojunction solar cells for indoor light harvesting

H Yin, S Chen, SH Cheung, HW Li, Y **e… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A porphyrin-based donor material P1 is used to fabricate bulk-heterojunction solar cells
harvesting room light. P1 consists of a porphyrin ring linked by two ethylrhodanine end caps …

Importance of electric-field-independent mobilities in thick-film organic solar cells

CHY Ho, Y Pei, Y Qin, C Zhang, Z Peng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In organic solar cells (OSCs), a thick active layer usually yields a higher photocurrent with
broader optical absorption than a thin active layer. In fact, a∼ 300 nm thick active layer is …

Using ultralow dosages of electron acceptor to reveal the early stage donor–acceptor electronic interactions in bulk heterojunction blends

CHY Ho, SH Cheung, HW Li, KL Chiu… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tuning the donor–acceptor (D–A) weight ratio is an essential step to optimize the
performance of a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell. The unoptimized regime with a low …

A universal processing additive for high-performance polymer solar cells

TH Lee, SY Park, B Walker, SJ Ko, J Heo, HY Woo… - RSC …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To optimize the performance of polymer solar cells, various techniques have been
developed and reported from various research fields. The introduction of processing …