From solution to thin film: molecular assembly of π-conjugated systems and impact on (opto) electronic properties

A Khasbaatar, Z Xu, JH Lee… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of conjugated organic molecules from solution to solid-state plays a critical
role in determining the thin film morphology and optoelectronic properties of solution …

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

J Hou, O Inganäs, RH Friend, F Gao - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been dominated by donor: acceptor blends based on
fullerene acceptors for over two decades. This situation has changed recently, with non …

Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

M Zhang, L Zhu, G Zhou, T Hao, C Qiu, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The chemical structure of donors and acceptors limit the power conversion efficiencies
achievable with active layers of binary donor-acceptor mixtures. Here, using quaternary …

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 photovoltaics over three decades

O Inganäs - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic devices, over the last three
decades, has led to unexpected performance for an alternative choice of materials to convert …

Hybridization of local exciton and charge-transfer states reduces nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

FD Eisner, M Azzouzi, Z Fei, X Hou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A number of recent studies have shown that the nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar
cells can be suppressed in systems with low energetic offsets between donor and acceptor …

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

J Liu, S Chen, D Qian, B Gautam, G Yang, J Zhao… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Fast and efficient charge separation is essential to achieve high power conversion efficiency
in organic solar cells (OSCs). In state-of-the-art OSCs, this is usually achieved by a …

Low-bandgap near-IR conjugated polymers/molecules for organic electronics

L Dou, Y Liu, Z Hong, G Li, Y Yang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION An important topic in materials science in the past few decades has
been the development of organic semiconductors and their broad applications in electronics …

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 …

Quantifying losses in open-circuit voltage in solution-processable solar cells

J Yao, T Kirchartz, MS Vezie, MA Faist, W Gong, Z He… - Physical review applied, 2015 - APS
The maximum open-circuit voltage of a solar cell can be evaluated in terms of its ability to
emit light. We herein verify the reciprocity relation between the electroluminescence …