Managing challenges in organic photovoltaics: properties and roles of donor/acceptor interfaces

Y Liu, Y Wu, Y Geng, E Zhou… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have demonstrated increasing potential for use in large‐area,
flexible, and light‐weight applications. To date, the rapid development of nonfullerene …

Energy-gap law for photocurrent generation in fullerene-based organic solar cells: the case of low-donor-content blends

E Collado-Fregoso, SN Pugliese… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The involvement of charge-transfer (CT) states in the photogeneration and recombination of
charge carriers has been an important focus of study within the organic photovoltaic …

Short Excited‐State Lifetimes Mediate Charge‐Recombination Losses in Organic Solar Cell Blends with Low Charge‐Transfer Driving Force

R Shivhare, GJ Moore, A Hofacker, S Hutsch… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A blend of a low‐optical‐gap diketopyrrolopyrrole polymer and a fullerene derivative, with
near‐zero driving force for electron transfer, is investigated. Using femtosecond transient …

On the physical origins of charge separation at donor–acceptor interfaces in organic solar cells: Energy bending versus energy disorder

LE de Sousa, V Coropceanu… - Advanced Theory …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Charge separation (CS) is a central process in the working of organic solar cells (OSC).
Despite the strong electron–hole (e–h) Coulombic attraction at the donor–acceptor (D–A) …

Hole delocalization as a driving force for charge pair dissociation in organic photovoltaics

AB Matheson, A Ruseckas, SJ Pearson… - Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Charge carrier photogeneration is studied in photovoltaic blends of the conjugated polymer
PTB7 with the electron acceptor PC71BM at low excitation densities using broadband …

Kinetic modeling of the electric field dependent exciton quenching at the donor–acceptor interface

L Benatto, CAM Moraes, M de Jesus Bassi… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, the electric field dependence of the exciton quenching efficiency at the
donor/acceptor (D/A) heterojunction was studied. The concentration of singlet excitons and …

Temperature Dependent Epitaxial Growth of C60 Overlayers on Single Crystal Pentacene

Y Nakayama, R Tsuruta, A Hinderhofer… - Advanced Materials …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heteroepitaxy of one material onto another molecular single crystal surface is one promising
route for resolving questions about formation criteria of molecular heterojunction structures …

Optimum driving energy for achieving balanced open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current density in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

W Yang, Y Yao, P Guo, H Sun, Y Luo - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic bulk heterojunction solar cells generally suffer from a trade-off between the open
circuit voltage (Voc) and the short circuit current density (Jsc) under a given donor/acceptor …

Improved Performance of Thick Films Based Binary and Ternary Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Devices Incorporated with Electrospinning Processed …

HJ Huang, HR Nan, YG Yang, XY Gao… - Advanced Materials …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nanofibers (average diameter of≈ 150–160 nm) consisting of both binary and ternary bulk
heterojunction organic photovoltaic (BHJ‐OPV) donor‐acceptor pairs poly (3 …

Organic Solar Cells with Nanofibers in the Active Layer Obtained by Coaxial Electrospinning

YS de Sena Silva, MFV Marques - Advanced Energy Conversion …, 2023 - ojs.wiserpub.com
The high demand for energy and the intensification of climate change have led to the need
to improve renewable energy sources, such as solar energy. Organic bulk heterojunction …