Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics: Recent advances, current challenges and future prospects

MA Scarpulla, B McCandless, AB Phillips, Y Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

XK Chen, D Qian, Y Wang, T Kirchartz, W Tress, H Yao… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) come with
reduced non-radiative voltage losses (Δ V nr). Here we show that, in contrast to the energy …

Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells

H Lu, Y Liu, P Ahlawat, A Mishra, WR Tress… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have reached a power-
conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.2%, thus exceeding other thin-film solar cells. FAPbI3 …

High-efficiency perovskite solar cells

JY Kim, JW Lee, HS Jung, H Shin, NG Park - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
With rapid progress in a power conversion efficiency (PCE) to reach 25%, metal halide
perovskite-based solar cells became a game-changer in a photovoltaic performance race …

Six-junction III–V solar cells with 47.1% conversion efficiency under 143 Suns concentration

JF Geisz, RM France, KL Schulte, MA Steiner… - Nature energy, 2020 - nature.com
Single-junction flat-plate terrestrial solar cells are fundamentally limited to about 30% solar-
to-electricity conversion efficiency, but multiple junctions and concentrated light make much …

High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder

S Liu, J Yuan, W Deng, M Luo, Y Xie, Q Liang, Y Zou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Energy loss within organic solar cells (OSCs) is undesirable as it reduces cell efficiency,,–.
In particular, non-radiative recombination loss and energetic disorder, which are closely …

Peripheral halogenation engineering controls molecular stacking to enable highly efficient organic solar cells

Y Zou, H Chen, X Bi, X Xu, H Wang, M Lin… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The diverse molecular stacking tuned by peripheral halogens in non-fullerene acceptors
(NFAs) significantly affects the molecular physicochemical properties, the film morphologies …

Efficient and stable perovskite solar cells by tailoring of interfaces

J Xia, M Sohail, MK Nazeeruddin - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interface tailoring is crucial for the efficiency and stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
(PSCs). The reported interface engineering primarily focuses on the energy level turning …

Overcoming redox reactions at perovskite-nickel oxide interfaces to boost voltages in perovskite solar cells

CC Boyd, RC Shallcross, T Moot, R Kerner… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Nickel oxide (NiO x) hole transport layers (HTLs) are desirable contacts for perovskite
photovoltaics because they are low cost, stable, and readily scalable; however, they deliver …