Models and mechanisms of ternary organic solar cells

M Günther, N Kazerouni, D Blätte, JD Perea… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), three different components are mixed to form the
photoactive layer, opening up opportunities to boost the power conversion efficiency—for …

Understanding the Nonradiative Charge Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics: From Molecule to Device

Y Kong, H Chen, L Zuo - Advanced Functional Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have made significant strides with efficiencies now exceeding
20%, positioning them as potential competitors to inorganic solar technologies. One of the …

An Isomeric Solid Additive Enables High‐Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Developed Using a Benzo‐Difuran‐Based Donor Polymer

L Chen, J Yi, R Ma, L Ding, TA Dela Peña… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, nearly all high‐efficiency organic photovoltaic devices use donor polymers based
on the benzo‐dithiophene (BDT) unit. To diversify the choices of building blocks for high …

Charge-Transfer State Dissociation Efficiency Can Limit Free Charge Generation in Low-Offset Organic Solar Cells

JS Müller, M Comí, F Eisner, M Azzouzi… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We investigate the charge-generation processes limiting the performance of low-offset
organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells by studying a series of newly synthesized PBDB-T …

Toward more efficient organic solar cells: a detailed study of loss pathway and its impact on overall device performance in Low‐Offset organic solar cells

B Sun, N Tokmoldin, O Alqahtani… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐offset organic solar cell systems have attracted great interest since nonfullerene
acceptors came into the picture. While numerous studies have focused on the charge …

Elucidating how low energy offset matters to performance of nonfullerene acceptor-based solar cells

N Tokmoldin, B Sun, F Moruzzi, A Patterson… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The energetic offset between the highest occupied molecular orbitals of the donor and
acceptor components of organic photovoltaic blends is well-known to affect the device …

Decreasing exciton dissociation rates for reduced voltage losses in organic solar cells

H Wu, H Lu, Y Li, X Zhou, G Zhou, H Pan, H Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Enhancing the device electroluminescence quantum efficiency (EQE EL) is a critical factor in
mitigating non-radiative voltage losses (V NR) and further improving the performance of …

Understanding the Role of Triplet‐Triplet Annihilation in Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells

LJF Hart, J Grüne, W Liu, T Lau, J Luke… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have enabled power conversion efficiencies exceeding
19% in organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the open‐circuit voltage of OSCs remains low …

Steric hindrance induced low exciton binding energy enables low‐driving‐force organic solar cells

T Hu, X Zheng, T Wang, A Saparbaev, B Gao, J Wu… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Exciton binding energy (Eb) has been regarded as a critical parameter in charge separation
during photovoltaic conversion. Minimizing the Eb of the photovoltaic materials can facilitate …

18.73% efficiency organic solar cells with a medium bandgap acceptor as a third component

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Deng, T Huang, D Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To improve the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), it is important to
optimize all relevant parameters. However, it is challenging work to select suitable …