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 …

Molecular semiconductors in organic photovoltaic cells

AW Hains, Z Liang, MA Woodhouse… - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
We begin with a general description of the chemical, physical, and electrical properties of
organic semiconductors, OSCs, a class of materials that includes molecular semiconductors …

Benefits of very thin PCBM and LiF layers for solution-processed p–i–n perovskite solar cells

J Seo, S Park, YC Kim, NJ Jeon, JH Noh… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly efficient p–i–n perovskite solar cells employing a flat and thick CH3NH3PbI3 film and
a thin PCBM film are fabricated by the solution-process at low temperature. Through …

Covalent and noncovalent phthalocyanine− carbon nanostructure systems: synthesis, photoinduced electron transfer, and application to molecular photovoltaics

G Bottari, G de la Torre, DM Guldi, T Torres - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Photosynthesis is used by nature to convert light energy into chemical energy in some living
systems. In such a process, a cascade of very efficient, short-range energy and electron …

Excited state orbital optimization via minimizing the square of the gradient: General approach and application to singly and doubly excited states via density functional …

D Hait, M Head-Gordon - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a general approach to converge excited state solutions to any quantum
chemistry orbital optimization process, without the risk of variational collapse. The resulting …

Lighting porphyrins and phthalocyanines for molecular photovoltaics

MV Martinez-Diaz, G de la Torre, T Torres - Chemical Communications, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) represents one of the most promising technological
areas. Porphyrins and phthalocyanines are perfectly suited for their integration in light …

Interface investigation and engineering–achieving high performance polymer photovoltaic devices

LM Chen, Z Xu, Z Hong, Y Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The contact between the polymer active layer and the electrode is one the most critical
interfaces in polymer solar cells. In this article, we report the progress of interface …

[BUCH][B] Chemistry of discotic liquid crystals: from monomers to polymers

S Kumar - 2016 - books.google.com
Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Synthesis and applications of core-enlarged perylene dyes

Y Avlasevich, C Li, K Müllen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Perylene dyes not only feature high chemical and photochemical stability, high molar
absorptivities and fluorescence quantum yields but also offer wide possibilities for chemical …

Oxide contacts in organic photovoltaics: Characterization and control of near-surface composition in indium− tin oxide (ITO) electrodes

NR Armstrong, PA Veneman, E Ratcliff… - Accounts of chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The recent improvements in the power conversion efficiencies of organic photovoltaic
devices (OPVs) promise to make these technologies increasingly attractive alternatives to …