A review of grazing incidence small‐and wide‐angle x‐ray scattering techniques for exploring the film morphology of organic solar cells

A Mahmood, JL Wang - Solar RRL, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a rapid evolution of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been achieved by virtue
of structural design of active layer materials and optimization of film morphology. Along with …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

Exploring the origin of high optical absorption in conjugated polymers

MS Vezie, S Few, I Meager, G Pieridou, B Dörling… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The specific optical absorption of an organic semiconductor is critical to the performance of
organic optoelectronic devices. For example, higher light-harvesting efficiency can lead to …

Design of Narrow-Gap : A Passivated Codoping Approach <?format ?>for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Activity

Y Gai, J Li, SS Li, JB Xia, SH Wei - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
To improve the photoelectrochemical activity of TiO 2 for hydrogen production through water
splitting, the band edges of TiO 2 should be tailored to match with visible light absorption …

High refractive index organic–inorganic nanocomposites: design, synthesis and application

C Lü, B Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic–inorganic nanocomposites with high refractive index (RI) are typically constructed
by integrating high RI inorganic nanoscale building blocks into a processable, transparent …

Origin of the efficient polaron-pair dissociation in polymer-fullerene blends

C Deibel, T Strobel, V Dyakonov - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
The separation of photogenerated polaron pairs in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells is
the intermediate but crucial step between exciton dissociation and charge transport to the …

High‐efficiency perovskite solar cell based on poly (3‐hexylthiophene): influence of molecular weight and mesoscopic scaffold layer

NY Nia, F Matteocci, L Cina, A Di Carlo - ChemSusChem, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we investigated the effect of the molecular weight (MW) of poly 3‐hexylthiophene
(P3HT) hole‐transport material on the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). We …

Unifying energetic disorder from charge transport and band bending in organic semiconductors

A Karki, GJAH Wetzelaer, GNM Reddy… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the density of states (DOS) width accurately is critical in understanding the
charge‐transport properties of organic semiconducting materials as broader DOS …

Higher molecular weight leads to improved photoresponsivity, charge transport and interfacial ordering in a narrow bandgap semiconducting polymer

M Tong, S Cho, JT Rogers, K Schmidt… - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the molecular weight of the low‐bandgap semiconducting copolymer, poly [(4, 4‐
didoecyldithieno [3, 2‐b: 2′, 3′‐d] silole)‐2, 6‐diyl‐alt‐(2, 1, 3‐benzothiadiazole)‐4, 7 …

Nanoimprinted organic semiconductor laser pumped by a light-emitting diode

G Tsiminis, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2013 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
An organic semiconductor laser, simply fabricated by UV-nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL),
that is pumped with a pulsed InGaN LED is demonstrated. Molecular weight optimization of …