Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Recent progress and perspective in solution-processed Interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer and organometal perovskite solar cells

CC Chueh, CZ Li, AKY Jen - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we summarize the latest developments in solution-processed interfacial layers
that have contributed to the significantly improved performance of polymer and perovskite …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

Interfacial charge transfer states in condensed phase systems

K Vandewal - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Intermolecular charge transfer (CT) states at the interface between electron-donating (D)
and electron-accepting (A) materials in organic thin films are characterized by absorption …

Electrostatic phenomena in organic semiconductors: fundamentals and implications for photovoltaics

G D'Avino, L Muccioli, F Castet… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This review summarizes the current understanding of electrostatic phenomena in ordered
and disordered organic semiconductors, outlines numerical schemes developed for …

Multi-site anchoring of single-molecule for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells with lead shielding

Z He, S Zhang, Y Gao, Q Geng, X Jia, S Yang… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has greatly promoted the progress of
photovoltaic technologies. The rapid development of PSCs has been driven by the …

Charge separation and recombination at polymer–fullerene heterojunctions: Delocalization and hybridization effects

G D'Avino, L Muccioli, Y Olivier… - The journal of physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We address charge separation and recombination in polymer/fullerene solar cells with a
multiscale modeling built from accurate atomistic inputs and accounting for disorder …

Local excitation/charge-transfer hybridization simultaneously promotes charge generation and reduces nonradiative voltage loss in nonfullerene organic solar cells

G Han, Y Yi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
High power conversion efficiencies in state-of-the-art nonfullerene organic solar cells (NF
OSCs) call for elucidation of the underlying working mechanisms of both high photocurrent …

Charge Photogeneration in Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Influence of Excess Energy and Electrostatic Interactions

M Saladina, P Simón Marqués… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In organic solar cells, photogenerated singlet excitons form charge transfer (CT) complexes,
which subsequently split into free charge carriers. Here, the contributions of excess energy …

Molecular understanding of fullerene–electron donor interactions in organic solar cells

SM Ryno, MK Ravva, X Chen, H Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells hold promise of providing low‐cost, renewable power generation, with
current devices providing up to 13% power conversion efficiency. The rational design of …