Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

Neutral-and multi-colored semitransparent perovskite solar cells

KT Lee, LJ Guo, HJ Park - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
In this review, we summarize recent works on perovskite solar cells with neutral-and multi-
colored semitransparency for building-integrated photovoltaics and tandem solar cells. The …

Beyond Shockley–Queisser: molecular approaches to high-efficiency photovoltaics

MJY Tayebjee, DR McCamey… - The journal of physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Molecular materials afford abundant flexibility in the tunability of physical and electronic
properties. As such, they are ideally suited to engineering low-cost, flexible, light-harvesting …

Transparent electrodes printed with nanocrystal inks for flexible smart devices

J Song, H Zeng - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent electrodes (TEs) are crucial in a wide range of modern electronic and
optoelectronic devices. However, traditional TEs cannot meet the requirements of smart …

Graphene and graphene-like molecules: prospects in solar cells

KP Loh, SW Tong, J Wu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Graphene is constantly hyped as a game-changer for flexible transparent displays.
However, to date, no solar cell fabricated on graphene electrodes has out-performed indium …

Fully printed organic tandem solar cells using solution-processed silver nanowires and opaque silver as charge collecting electrodes

F Guo, N Li, VV Radmilović, VR Radmilović… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We report in this work efficient, fully printed tandem organic solar cells (OSCs) using solution-
processed silver as the reflective bottom electrode and silver nanowires as the transparent …

High‐efficiency nonfullerene organic solar cells with a parallel tandem configuration

L Zuo, J Yu, X Shi, F Lin, W Tang… - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a highly efficient parallel connected tandem solar cell utilizing a nonfullerene
acceptor is demonstrated. Guided by optical simulation, each of the active layer thicknesses …

A generic concept to overcome bandgap limitations for designing highly efficient multi-junction photovoltaic cells

F Guo, N Li, FW Fecher, N Gasparini… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The multi-junction concept is the most relevant approach to overcome the Shockley–
Queisser limit for single-junction photovoltaic cells. The record efficiencies of several types …

Molecular engineering of side chain architecture of conjugated polymers enhances performance of photovoltaics by tuning ternary blend structures

YC Lin, HW Cheng, YW Su, BH Lin, YJ Lu, CH Chen… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Several approaches, including the use of small molecule acceptors, novel polymer
structures, and tandem cell structures, have been adopted to prepare polymer solar cells …

Emerging role of the band‐structure approach in biohybrid photovoltaics: a path beyond bioelectrochemistry

SK Ravi, VS Udayagiri, L Suresh… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Emulation of natural photosynthesis is central to modern photovoltaic research targeting
sustainable and economic ways of solar energy harvesting. Natural photosynthetic systems …