Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Manipulating charge transfer and transport via intermediary electron acceptor channels enables 19.3% efficiency organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Li, Y Li, R Sun, J Min, Y Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Balancing and improving the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density
(Jsc) synergistically has always been the critical point for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) to …

Multiphase morphology with enhanced carrier lifetime via quaternary strategy enables high‐efficiency, thick‐film, and large‐area organic photovoltaics

L Zhan, S Yin, Y Li, S Li, T Chen, R Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous breakthrough of the efficiency of organic photovoltaics (OPVs), their
practical applications are on the agenda. However, the thickness tolerance and upscaling in …

Layer‐by‐layer processed ternary organic photovoltaics with efficiency over 18%

L Zhan, S Li, X Xia, Y Li, X Lu, L Zuo, M Shi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining a finely tuned morphology of the active layer to facilitate both charge generation
and charge extraction has long been the goal in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Unsymmetrically Chlorinated Non‐Fused Electron Acceptor Leads to High‐Efficiency and Stable Organic Solar Cells

DL Ma, QQ Zhang, CZ Li - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Searching the cost‐effective organic semiconductors is strongly needed in order to facilitate
the practice of organic solar cells (OSCs), yet to be fulfilled. Herein, we have succeeded in …

Near‐infrared materials: the turning point of organic photovoltaics

D Meng, R Zheng, Y Zhao, E Zhang, L Dou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing organic semiconductors have opened up many
exciting opportunities for organic photovoltaic (OPV) research. For example, new …

Over 17% efficiency ternary organic solar cells enabled by two non-fullerene acceptors working in an alloy-like model

L Zhan, S Li, TK Lau, Y Cui, X Lu, M Shi… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, organic solar cells (OSCs) with Y6 and its derivatives as electron acceptors
provide the highest efficiencies among the studied binary OSCs. To further improve the …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …