Low-bandgap near-IR conjugated polymers/molecules for organic electronics

L Dou, Y Liu, Z Hong, G Li, Y Yang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION An important topic in materials science in the past few decades has
been the development of organic semiconductors and their broad applications in electronics …

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 …

A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

XK Chen, D Qian, Y Wang, T Kirchartz, W Tress, H Yao… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) come with
reduced non-radiative voltage losses (Δ V nr). Here we show that, in contrast to the energy …

CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite/Fullerene Planar‐Heterojunction Hybrid Solar Cells

JY Jeng, YF Chiang, MH Lee, SR Peng… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have reported organometal halide perovskitebased mesoscopic solar cells
with promising photovoltaic efficiencies.[1–4] These devices employ a submicrometer …

Van der Waals materials for atomically-thin photovoltaics: promise and outlook

D Jariwala, AR Davoyan, J Wong, HA Atwater - Acs Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors provide a unique opportunity for optoelectronics due
to their layered atomic structure and electronic and optical properties. To date, a majority of …

Fill factor in organic solar cells

B Qi, J Wang - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The fill factor (FF) is an important parameter that determines the power conversion efficiency
of an organic solar cell. There are several factors that can significantly influence FF, and …

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 …

8.4% efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells exploiting long-range exciton energy transfer

K Cnops, BP Rand, D Cheyns, B Verreet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In order to increase the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, their absorption
spectrum should be broadened while maintaining efficient exciton harvesting. This requires …

Beyond Langevin recombination: How equilibrium between free carriers and charge transfer states determines the open‐circuit voltage of organic solar cells

TM Burke, S Sweetnam, K Vandewal… - Advanced Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells lag behind their inorganic counterparts in efficiency due largely to low
open‐circuit voltages (Voc). In this work, a comprehensive framework for understanding and …

Doping of organic semiconductors

B Lüssem, M Riede, K Leo - physica status solidi (a), 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding and applications of organic semiconductors have shown remarkable
progress in recent years. This material class has been developed from being a lab curiosity …