Doping approaches for organic semiconductors

AD Scaccabarozzi, A Basu, F Aniés, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electronic doping in organic materials has remained an elusive concept for several
decades. It drew considerable attention in the early days in the quest for organic materials …

Progress in stability of organic solar cells

L Duan, A Uddin - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The organic solar cell (OSC) is a promising emerging low‐cost thin film photovoltaics
technology. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs has overpassed 16% for single …

Self-assembled monolayer enables hole transport layer-free organic solar cells with 18% efficiency and improved operational stability

Y Lin, Y Firdaus, FH Isikgor, MI Nugraha… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report on bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPVs) based on the self-
assembled monolayer (SAM) 2PACz as a hole-selective interlayer functionalized directly …

A 19% efficient and stable organic photovoltaic device enabled by a guest nonfullerene acceptor with fibril-like morphology

H Chen, SY Jeong, J Tian, Y Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A nonfullerene acceptor, isoIDITC, capable of exhibiting fibril-like morphology, is utilized as
a third component in organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs). A power conversion efficiency …

Cathode engineering with perylene-diimide interlayer enabling over 17% efficiency single-junction organic solar cells

J Yao, B Qiu, ZG Zhang, L Xue, R Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In organic solar cells (OSCs), cathode interfacial materials are generally designed with
highly polar groups to increase the capability of lowering the work function of cathode …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …

Graded bulk-heterojunction enables 17% binary organic solar cells via nonhalogenated open air coating

Y Zhang, K Liu, J Huang, X Xia, J Cao, G Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Graded bulk-heterojunction (G-BHJ) with well-defined vertical phase separation has
potential to surpass classical BHJ in organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, an effective G …

Refined molecular microstructure and optimized carrier management of multicomponent organic photovoltaics toward 19.3% certified efficiency

S Li, C He, T Chen, J Zheng, R Sun, J Fang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Intuitive nanoscale visualization of sensitive donor–acceptor (D–A) heterojunction interfaces
is still a huge challenge in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) but plays a critical role in carrier …

A simple n-dopant derived from diquat boosts the efficiency of organic solar cells to 18.3%

Y Lin, MI Nugraha, Y Firdaus… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molecular doping has recently been shown to improve the operating characteristics of
organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Here, we prepare neutral Diquat (DQ) and use it as n-dopant …

Versatile self‐assembled molecule enables high‐efficiency wide‐bandgap perovskite solar cells and organic solar cells

W Wang, X Liu, J Wang, C Chen, J Yu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and organic solar cells (OSCs) face device efficiency losses
and instability challenges with existing hole transport materials (HTMs). The development of …