Polymer semiconductors: synthesis, processing, and applications

L Ding, ZD Yu, XY Wang, ZF Yao, Y Lu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors composed of a carbon-based π conjugated backbone have been
studied for several decades as active layers of multifarious organic electronic devices. They …

Recent advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

19.31% binary organic solar cell and low non-radiative recombination enabled by non-monotonic intermediate state transition

J Fu, PWK Fong, H Liu, CS Huang, X Lu, S Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to
both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination …

Organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a 2D‐conjugated non‐fullerene acceptor featuring favorable electronic and aggregation structures

K Liu, Y Jiang, F Liu, G Ran, F Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The π‐expansion of non‐fullerene acceptors is a promising method for boosting the organic
photovoltaic performance by allowing the fine‐tuning of electronic structures and molecular …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

K Liu, Y Jiang, G Ran, F Liu, W Zhang, X Zhu - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The development of high-performance binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with a simplified
working mechanism and fabrication process is highly desirable to promote the commercial …

In situ removable additive assisted organic solar cells achieving efficiency over 19% and fill factor exceeding 81%

L Kong, Z Zhang, N Zhao, Z Cai, J Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Additive engineering can precisely regulate the bulk‐heterojunction active layer morphology
with ideal domain size and purity, playing a critical role in development of organic solar cells …

Small reorganization energy acceptors enable low energy losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells

Y Shi, Y Chang, K Lu, Z Chen, J Zhang, Y Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Minimizing energy loss is of critical importance in the pursuit of attaining high-performance
organic solar cells. Interestingly, reorganization energy plays a crucial role in photoelectric …

High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells Containing Pyrido[2,3‐b]quinoxaline‐Core‐Based Small‐Molecule Acceptors with Optimized Orbit Overlap Lengths and …

T Xu, Z Luo, R Ma, Z Chen, TA Dela Peña… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The central core in A‐DA1D‐A‐type small‐molecule acceptor (SMAs) plays an important
role in determining the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs), while the principles …