The path to 20% power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells

A Karki, AJ Gillett, RH Friend… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of single‐junction organic solar cells (OSC) have
now reached over 18%. This rapid recent progress can be attributed to the development of …

Recent advances in PM6: Y6-based organic solar cells

Q Guo, Q Guo, Y Geng, A Tang, M Zhang… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The last two years have witnessed rapid progress in organic solar cells (OSCs), driven by
the newly-developed nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) Y6, which contains an electron-deficient …

Fibrillization of non‐fullerene acceptors enables 19% efficiency pseudo‐bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

D Li, N Deng, Y Fu, C Guo, B Zhou, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The structural order and aggregation of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) are critical toward
light absorption, phase separation, and charge transport properties of their photovoltaic …

Electrostatic force promoted intermolecular stacking of polymer donors toward 19.4% efficiency binary organic solar cells

Z Gan, L Wang, J Cai, C Guo, C Chen, D Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Conjugated polymers are generally featured with low structural order due to their aromatic
and irregular structural units, which limits their light absorption and charge mobility in …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cell with 19% efficiency

Y Cui, Y Xu, H Yao, P Bi, L Hong, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Improving power conversion efficiency (PCE) is important for broadening the applications of
organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, a maximum PCE of 19.0%(certified value of 18.7%) …

Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

J Kosco, S Gonzalez-Carrero, CT Howells, T Fei… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Organic semiconductor photocatalysts for the production of solar fuels are attractive as they
can be synthetically tuned to absorb visible light while simultaneously retaining suitable …

Lifetime over 10000 hours for organic solar cells with Ir/IrOx electron-transporting layer

Y Li, B Huang, X Zhang, J Ding, Y Zhang, L Xiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The stability of organic solar cells is a key issue to promote practical applications. Herein, we
demonstrate that the device performance of organic solar cells is enhanced by an Ir/IrOx …

Molecular orientation-dependent energetic shifts in solution-processed non-fullerene acceptors and their impact on organic photovoltaic performance

Y Fu, TH Lee, YC Chin, RA Pacalaj, C Labanti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) employed in state-of-art organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
often exhibit strong quadrupole moments which can strongly impact on material energetics …

Non-fullerene acceptors with hetero-dihalogenated terminals induce significant difference in single crystallography and enable binary organic solar cells with 17.5 …

L Wang, Q An, L Yan, HR Bai, M Jiang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the dihalogenation of terminals being an effective strategy to produce efficient
nonfullerene acceptor (NFA)-based organic solar cells (OSCs), hetero-dihalogenated …

Systematic merging of nonfullerene acceptor π-extension and tetrafluorination strategies affords polymer solar cells with> 16% efficiency

G Li, X Zhang, LO Jones, JM Alzola… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The end-capping group (EG) is the essential electron-withdrawing component of
nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). To …