Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 …

MT Dang, L Hirsch, G Wantz, JD Wuest - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic cells are an established and increasingly important technology for the
production of renewable energy. 1 Despite the expanding use of inorganic semiconductors …

Degradation mechanisms in organic photovoltaic devices

N Grossiord, JM Kroon, R Andriessen, PWM Blom - Organic Electronics, 2012 - Elsevier
In the present review, the main degradation mechanisms occurring in the different layer
stacking (ie photoactive layer, electrode, encapsulation film, interconnection) of polymeric …

Rational design of high performance conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

H Zhou, L Yang, W You - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
The research on the polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) has attracted an increasing amount
of attention in recent years because PSCs pose potential advantages over mainstream …

Dopant-free polymeric hole transport materials for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

GW Kim, G Kang, J Kim, GY Lee, HI Kim… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a dopant-free polymeric hole transport material (HTM) that is based on benzo [1, 2-
b: 4, 5: b′] dithiophene and 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole, which results in highly efficient and …

A nanocomposite ultraviolet photodetector based on interfacial trap-controlled charge injection

F Guo, B Yang, Y Yuan, Z Xiao, Q Dong, Y Bi… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Ultraviolet photodetectors have applications in fields such as medicine, communications and
defence, and are typically made from single-crystalline silicon, silicon carbide or gallium …

[PDF][PDF] For the bright future-bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 7.4%

Y Liang, Z Xu, J Xia, ST Tsai, Y Wu, G Li, C Ray… - Advanced …, 2010 - academia.edu
Sun is the largest carbon-neutral energy source that has not been fully utilized. Although
there are solar cell devices based on inorganic semiconductor to efficiently harvest solar …

Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency

HY Chen, J Hou, S Zhang, Y Liang, G Yang, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Following the development of the bulk heterojunction structure, recent years have seen a
dramatic improvement in the efficiency of polymer solar cells. Maximizing the open-circuit …

Recent progress in polymer solar cells: manipulation of polymer: fullerene morphology and the formation of efficient inverted polymer solar cells

LM Chen, Z Hong, G Li, Y Yang - Advanced materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer morphology has proven to be extremely important in determining the optoelectronic
properties in polymer‐based devices. The understanding and manipulation of polymer …

Nanostructured conducting polymers for energy applications: towards a sustainable platform

S Ghosh, T Maiyalagan, RN Basu - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, there has been tremendous progress in the field of nanodimensional conducting
polymers with the objective of tuning the intrinsic properties of the polymer and the potential …

Vertical phase separation in poly (3‐hexylthiophene): fullerene derivative blends and its advantage for inverted structure solar cells

Z Xu, LM Chen, G Yang, CH Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A method which enables the investigation of the buried interfaces without altering the
properties of the polymer films is used to study vertical phase separation of spin‐coated poly …