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 …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …

Balancing the efficiency, stability, and cost potential for organic solar cells via a new figure of merit

W Yang, W Wang, Y Wang, R Sun, J Guo, H Li, M Shi… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
In spite of the great success in device efficiency resulting from the excessive design of
photovoltaic materials, the stability and cost issues concerning basic commercial …

Achieving 15.81% and 15.29% efficiency of all-polymer solar cells based on layer-by-layer and bulk heterojunction structures

W Xu, X Zhu, X Ma, H Zhou, X Li, SY Jeong… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Wide bandgap polymer donor PM6 and narrow bandgap polymer acceptor PY-IT were
selected to construct all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) with a layer-by-layer (LbL) or bulk …

Aggregation‐induced multilength scaled morphology enabling 11.76% efficiency in all‐polymer solar cells using printing fabrication

L Zhu, W Zhong, C Qiu, B Lyu, Z Zhou… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) exhibit excellent stability and readily tunable ink viscosity,
and are therefore especially suitable for printing preparation of large‐scale devices. At …

Donor end‐capped alkyl chain length dependent non‐radiative energy loss in all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

L Zhang, R Sun, Z Zhang, J Zhang, Q Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A critical bottleneck for further efficiency breakthroughs in organic solar cells (OSCs) is to
minimize the non‐radiative energy loss (eΔVnr) while maximizing the charge generation …

High‐efficiency organic photovoltaics using eutectic acceptor fibrils to achieve current amplification

M Zhang, L Zhu, T Hao, G Zhou, C Qiu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The intrinsic electronic properties of donor (D) and acceptor (A) materials in coupling with
morphological features dictate the output in organic solar cells (OSCs). New physical …

Over 17.7% efficiency ternary-blend organic solar cells with low energy-loss and good thickness-tolerance

J Gao, X Ma, C Xu, X Wang, JH Son, SY Jeong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ternary-blend organic solar cells (TOSCs) are fabricated with PM6: BTP-4F-12 as the host
system and IT-M as the third component. The third component IT-M takes multiple roles in …

Efficient Semitransparent Layer‐by‐Layer Organic Photovoltaics via Optimizing Wide Bandgap and Narrow Absorption Polymer Layer Thickness

C Xu, K Jin, Z Xiao, Z Zhao, Y Yan, X Zhu, X Li… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Layer‐by‐layer organic photovoltaics (LbL‐OPVs) are fabricated using wide bandgap
polymer D18 with narrow photon harvesting range in visible light region and narrow …

Layered optimization strategy enables over 17.8% efficiency of layer-by-layer organic photovoltaics

X Ma, Q Jiang, W Xu, C Xu, SY Jeong, HY Woo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, layer-by-layer (LbL) type OPVs are constructed with wide bandgap polymer
PNTB6-Cl as donor and nonfullerene material BTP-4F-12 as acceptor. The layered …