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 …

18.2%-efficient ternary all-polymer organic solar cells with improved stability enabled by a chlorinated guest polymer acceptor

R Sun, T Wang, Q Fan, M Wu, X Yang, X Wu, Y Yu… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Although the polymer/polymer blend systems still lag far behind small-molecule-acceptor-
based counterparts in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), the ternary blending strategy …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX Xia, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

A thiadiazole‐based conjugated polymer with ultradeep homo level and strong electroluminescence enables 18.6% efficiency in organic solar cell

T Zhang, C An, P Bi, Q Lv, J Qin, L Hong… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Under the premise of ensuring favorable bulk heterojunction morphology in organic solar
cells (OSCs), conjugated polymer donors with deep‐lying highest occupied molecular …

Subtle molecular tailoring induces significant morphology optimization enabling over 16% efficiency organic solar cells with efficient charge generation

Z Zhou, W Liu, G Zhou, M Zhang, D Qian… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulating charge generation in a broad spectral region has proved to be crucial for
nonfullerene‐electron‐acceptor‐based organic solar cells (OSCs). 16.64% high efficiency …

Balancing the efficiency, stability, and cost potential for organic solar cells via a new figure of merit

W Yang, W Wang, Y Wang, R Sun, J Guo, H Li, M Shi… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
In spite of the great success in device efficiency resulting from the excessive design of
photovoltaic materials, the stability and cost issues concerning basic commercial …

Room-temperature-modulated polymorphism of nonfullerene acceptors enables efficient bilayer organic solar cells

Z Zhao, S Chung, YY Kim, M Jeong, X Li… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymorphism of nonfullerene acceptors enhances electron transport properties and
potentially impacts the performance of organic electronic devices. However, their application …

A Medium‐Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor Enabling Organic Photovoltaic Cells with 30% Efficiency under Indoor Artificial Light

T Zhang, C An, Y Xu, P Bi, Z Chen, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The correlation between molecular structure and photovoltaic performance is lagging for
constructing high‐performance indoor organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Herein, this …

Modulation of alkyl chain length on the thiazole side group enables over 17% efficiency in all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

K Ma, W Feng, H Liang, H Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular innovation is highly desirable to achieve efficient all‐small‐molecule organic
solar cells (SM‐OSCs). Herein, three small‐molecule donors (SMDs) with alkylated thiazole …

A universal layer-by-layer solution-processing approach for efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

R Sun, J Guo, C Sun, T Wang, Z Luo, Z Zhang… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Layer-by-layer (LbL) solution processing is a cost-effective technology for the large-scale
fabrication of organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, LbL OSCs were fabricated using …