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 …

Indacenodithiophene: a promising building block for high performance polymer solar cells

Y Li, M Gu, Z Pan, B Zhang, X Yang, J Gu… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology has become an
essential component of future global energy production. Although silicon-based inorganic …

Optoelectronic properties of naphthalene bis-benzimidazole based derivatives and their photovoltaic applications

M Javed, A Farhat, S Jabeen, RA Khera… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current study, the four molecules (F1-F4) have been designed to augment the
efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices by employing different acceptor moieties …

Enhancing the performance of small-molecule organic solar cells via fused-ring design

S Zhou, D Xia, S Liang, B Liu, J Wang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic solar cells (OSCs) as the promising green energy technology have drawn much
attention in the last two decades. In comparison to polymer solar cells, small-molecule …

Designing indaceno thiophene–based three new molecules containing non-fullerene acceptors as strong electron withdrawing groups with DFT approaches

M Ajmal, U Ali, A Javed, A Tariq, Z Arif, J Iqbal… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Nowadays, scientists are trying to develop low-cost fullerene free acceptors for small organic
photovoltaic cells in order to overcome the limitations of fullerene derivatives. Current …

Synthesis and properties of ladder-type BN-heteroacenes and diazabenzoindoles built on a pyrrolopyrrole scaffold

M Tasior, DT Gryko - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
A simple, three-step synthesis of BN-heteroacenes and diazabenzoindoles based on the
pyrrole [3, 2-b] pyrrole scaffold has been developed. The incorporation of BN units has …

Near-infrared harvesting fullerene-free all-small-molecule organic solar cells based on porphyrin donors

WT Hadmojo, D Yim, S Sinaga, W Lee… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fullerene-free all-small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells (SM-OPVs) have attracted
considerable attention because of well-defined molecular structures with low batch-to-batch …

Improving self-assembly behavior and photovoltaic performance of the indacenodithiophene-based small molecules via increasing dipole moment of the terminal …

Q Tao, M Xiao, M Zhu, L Shao, Z Sui, P Wang… - Dyes and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Two small molecules (SMs) of IDT (BT-T3Cz) 2 and IDT (DFBT-T3Cz) 2 with a D (A-Ar) 2
framework were designed and synthesized as a novel class of photovoltaic donor materials …

Efficient chemical structure and device engineering for achieving difluorinated 2, 2′-bithiophene-based small molecular organic solar cells with 9.0% efficiency

M Li, Z Qiu, G Zhang, Y Liu, L Xiong, D Bai… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Linear small molecules have been proved to be promising donor materials for high
performance small molecular solar cells (SMSCs). In this paper, a series of narrow-band …

A thermally and mechanically stable solar cell made of a small-molecule donor and a polymer acceptor

S Oh, S Badgujar, DH Kim, WE Lee, N Khan… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We performed systematic experiments based on a small molecule donor and a polymer
acceptor containing a naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based polymer as compared with fullerene …