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 …

Core/shell quantum dots solar cells

GS Selopal, H Zhao, ZM Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor nanocrystals, the so‐called quantum dots (QDs), exhibit versatile optical and
electrical properties. However, QDs possess high density of surface defects/traps due to the …

High-efficiency and air stable fullerene-free ternary organic solar cells

Q An, F Zhang, W Gao, Q Sun, M Zhang, C Yang… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Fullerene-free acceptors and ternary strategy have aroused extensive attention due to their
great potential for improving efficiency and stability of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, we …

Versatile ternary approach for novel organic solar cells: a review

P Bi, X Hao - Solar RRL, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs) have attracted a significant amount of attention and
have emerged as promising candidates for future clean energy in comparison with their …

Nematic liquid crystal materials as a morphology regulator for ternary small molecule solar cells with power conversion efficiency exceeding 10%

M Zhang, F Zhang, Q An, Q Sun, W Wang… - Journal of materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution-processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) are fabricated based on DRCN5T:
PC71BM as active layers, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is markedly increased from …

Energy level modulation of non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient organic solar cells with small energy loss

Q An, W Gao, F Zhang, J Wang, M Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Two new non-fullerene (NF) acceptors, namely BDTIT-M and BDTThIT-M, were rationally
designed to optimize the energy levels and optical bandgap. BDTIT-M is derived by …

Two compatible nonfullerene acceptors with similar structures as alloy for efficient ternary polymer solar cells

W Su, Q Fan, X Guo, X Meng, Z Bi, W Ma, M Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, we fabricated high efficient ternary PSCs based on two compatible non-
fullerene acceptors (IDIC and ITIC) with similar chemical structures and one new DA-type …

Side‐Chain Impact on Molecular Orientation of Organic Semiconductor Acceptors: High Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer over …

Z Luo, C Sun, S Chen, ZG Zhang, K Wu… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A new n‐type organic semiconductor (n‐OS) acceptor IDTPC with n‐hexyl side chains is
developed. Compared to side chains with 4‐hexylphenyl counterparts (IDTCN), such a …

Polymer/small molecule/fullerene based ternary solar cells

H Li, K Lu, Z Wei - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer/small molecule/fullerene based ternary solar cells have made great progress and
have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The addition of small molecules can …

Achieving over 11% power conversion efficiency in PffBT4T-2OD-based ternary polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit-voltage and suppressed charge …

W Li, J Cai, F Cai, Y Yan, H Yi, RS Gurney, D Liu… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Fabricating ternary solar cells (TSCs) is a promising strategy to improve the power
conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaics without introducing sophisticated processing …