Nonlinear optical materials for the smart filtering of optical radiation

D Dini, MJF Calvete, M Hanack - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

NK Elumalai, A Uddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed progressively in efficiency over the last two
decades. Though it is promising, this technology is still far from realizing its full prospect …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with> 1 V open circuit voltages

D Baran, T Kirchartz, S Wheeler, S Dimitrov… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Optimization of the energy levels at the donor–acceptor interface of organic solar cells has
driven their efficiencies to above 10%. However, further improvements towards efficiencies …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Efficient charge generation by relaxed charge-transfer states at organic interfaces

K Vandewal, S Albrecht, ET Hoke, KR Graham… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Interfaces between organic electron-donating (D) and electron-accepting (A) materials have
the ability to generate charge carriers on illumination. Efficient organic solar cells require a …

Mapping the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells

X Li, Q Zhang, J Yu, Y Xu, R Zhang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Energy level alignment (ELA) at donor (D)-acceptor (A) heterojunctions is essential for
understanding the charge generation and recombination process in organic photovoltaic …

Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells

CM Proctor, M Kuik, TQ Nguyen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Solution deposited bulk heterojunction organic solar cells are viewed as one of the most
promising alternative energy sources because of their ease of processing and their potential …