Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

Versatile ternary organic solar cells: a critical review

Q An, F Zhang, J Zhang, W Tang, Z Deng… - Energy & Environmental …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells has been constantly refreshed
in the past ten years from 4% up to 11% due to the contribution from the chemists on novel …

Origins of the open-circuit voltage in ternary organic solar cells and design rules for minimized voltage losses

Y Wang, J Yu, R Zhang, J Yuan, S Hultmark… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
The power conversion efficiency of ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), consisting of one
host binary blend and one guest component, remains limited by large voltage losses. The …

Bulk‐heterojunction organic solar cells: five core technologies for their commercialization

H Kang, G Kim, J Kim, S Kwon, H Kim… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades of vigorous interdisciplinary approaches has seen tremendous
breakthroughs in both scientific and technological developments of bulk‐heterojunction …

Fundamentals of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: An overview of stability/degradation issues and strategies for improvement

S Rafique, SM Abdullah, K Sulaiman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last few years, the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) structure has remarkably improved. However, for a large scale roll to …

Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 …

MT Dang, L Hirsch, G Wantz, JD Wuest - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic cells are an established and increasingly important technology for the
production of renewable energy. 1 Despite the expanding use of inorganic semiconductors …

Functional fullerenes for organic photovoltaics

CZ Li, HL Yip, AKY Jen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Tremendous progress has been made on the design and processing of new active and
interfacial materials to enable organic photovoltaics to achieve high power conversion …

Recent advances in morphology optimization for organic photovoltaics

H Lee, C Park, DH Sin, JH Park, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics are an important part of a next‐generation energy‐harvesting
technology that uses a practically infinite pollutant‐free energy source. They have the …

On the glass transition of polymer semiconductors and its impact on polymer solar cell stability

C Müller - Chemistry of Materials, 2015 - ACS Publications
The glass transition temperature is a critical processing parameter that governs the kinetics
of molecular organization of polymer semiconductors during solidification. Yet, little attention …

High‐performance organic bulk‐heterojunction solar cells based on multiple‐donor or multiple‐acceptor components

W Huang, P Cheng, Y Yang, G Li… - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on bulk heterojunction structures are promising
candidates for next‐generation solar cells. However, the narrow absorption bandwidth of …