Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics

Z Zheng, H Yao, L Ye, Y Xu, S Zhang, J Hou - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advantages such as being low cost, light weight, and flexible as well as having
low toxicity, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive interest. The field of OSCs …

Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

D Baran, RS Ashraf, DA Hanifi, M Abdelsamie… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Technological deployment of organic photovoltaic modules requires improvements in device
light-conversion efficiency and stability while keeping material costs low. Here we …

Operando characterization of organic mixed ionic/electronic conducting materials

R Wu, M Matta, BD Paulsen, J Rivnay - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Operando characterization plays an important role in revealing the structure–property
relationships of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs), enabling the direct …

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 …

25th anniversary article: a decade of organic/polymeric photovoltaic research

L Dou, J You, Z Hong, Z Xu, G Li, RA Street… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology has been developed and improved from a fancy
concept with less than 1% power conversion efficiency (PCE) to over 10% PCE, particularly …

The active layer morphology of organic solar cells probed with grazing incidence scattering techniques

P Müller‐Buschbaum - Advanced materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Grazing incidence X‐ray scattering (GIXS) provides unique insights into the morphology of
active materials and thin film layers used in organic photovoltaic devices. With grazing …

Miscibility–function relations in organic solar cells: significance of optimal miscibility in relation to percolation

L Ye, BA Collins, X Jiao, J Zhao… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer solar cells (PSCs) continue to be a promising low‐cost and lead‐free photovoltaic
technology. Of critical importance to PSCs is understanding and manipulating the …

Quenching to the percolation threshold in organic solar cells

L Ye, S Li, X Liu, S Zhang, M Ghasemi, Y Xiong, J Hou… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
The general lack of knowing the quench depth and the convolution with key kinetic factors
has confounded deeper understanding of the respective importance of these factors in the …

Multi-cation synergy suppresses phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites

HX Dang, K Wang, M Ghasemi, MC Tang… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Mixed lead halide perovskite solar cells have been demonstrated to benefit tremendously
from the addition of Cs+ and Rb+, but its root cause is yet to be understood. This hinders …