Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells

D Qian, Z Zheng, H Yao, W Tress, TR Hopper… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
The open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells is usually lower than the values achieved in
inorganic or perovskite photovoltaic devices with comparable bandgaps. Energy losses …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Photovoltaic materials: Present efficiencies and future challenges

A Polman, M Knight, EC Garnett, B Ehrler, WC Sinke - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Photovoltaics, which directly convert solar energy into electricity, offer a
practical and sustainable solution to the challenge of meeting the increasing global energy …

Tabulated values of the Shockley–Queisser limit for single junction solar cells

S Rühle - Solar energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The detailed balance limit for solar cells presented by Shockley and Queisser in 1961
describes the ultimate efficiency of an ideal p–n junction solar cell illuminated by a black …

Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

NK Elumalai, A Uddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed progressively in efficiency over the last two
decades. Though it is promising, this technology is still far from realizing its full prospect …

Increasing donor-acceptor spacing for reduced voltage loss in organic solar cells

J Wang, X Jiang, H Wu, G Feng, H Wu, J Li, Y Yi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The high voltage losses (V loss), originating from inevitable electron-phonon coupling in
organic materials, limit the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells to lower values …

Morphological control for high performance, solution‐processed planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

GE Eperon, VM Burlakov, P Docampo… - Advanced functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Organometal trihalide perovskite based solar cells have exhibited the highest efficiencies to‐
date when incorporated into mesostructured composites. However, thin solid films of a …

How to report record open‐circuit voltages in lead‐halide perovskite solar cells

L Krückemeier, U Rau, M Stolterfoht… - Advanced energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Open‐circuit voltages of lead‐halide perovskite solar cells are improving rapidly and are
approaching the thermodynamic limit. Since many different perovskite compositions with …