Donor Conjugated Polymers with Polar Side Chain Groups: The Role of Dielectric Constant and Energetic Disorder on Photovoltaic Performance

Increased Exciton Delocalization of Polymer upon Blending with Fullerene

(2018) Bhoj Gautam et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push-Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor

(2018) Wanning Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Over 14% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Chlorinated Polymer Donor

(2018) Shaoqing Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dithieno[3,2-b :2′,3′-d ]pyrrol Fused Nonfullerene Acceptors Enabling Over 13% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Jia Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fine-Tuning of Molecular Packing and Energy Level through Methyl Substitution Enabling Excellent Small Molecule Acceptors for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency up to 12.54%

(2018) Zhenghui Luo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Every Atom Counts: Elucidating the Fundamental Impact of Structural Change in Conjugated Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics

(2018) Chi Kin Lo et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Effect of Solid-State Polarization on Charge-Transfer Excitations and Transport Levels at Organic Interfaces from a Screened Range-Separated Hybrid Functional

(2017) Zilong Zheng et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Wenchao Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Imide Formation from Thiophene Dicarboxylic Acids Gives Expanded Side-Chain Selection in Thienopyrrolediones

(2017) Rylan M. W. Wolfe et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Effect of Polymer-Fullerene Interaction on the Dielectric Properties of the Blend

(2017) Iordania Constantinou et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High dielectric constant conjugated materials for organic photovoltaics

(2017) Jeroen Brebels et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Engineering dielectric constants in organic semiconductors

(2017) Ardalan Armin et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Fullerene Adducts Bearing Cyano Moiety for Both High Dielectric Constant and Good Active Layer Morphology of Organic Photovoltaics

(2016) Sheng Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

(2016) Wenchao Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Strong Electron-Deficient Polymers Lead to High Electron Mobility in Air and Their Morphology-Dependent Transport Behaviors

(2016) Yu-Qing Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Energy-Level Modulation of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Sunsun Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based Conjugated Polymers Bearing Branched Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for Photovoltaic Devices

(2016) Xingxing Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Evidence of Molecular Structure Dependent Charge Transfer between Isoindigo-Based Polymers and Fullerene

(2016) Tzung-Han Lai et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Open circuit voltage of organic solar cells: an in-depth review

(2016) Naveen Kumar Elumalai et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Donor polymer design enables efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2016) Zhengke Li et al.   Nature Communications

Development of polymer–fullerene solar cells

(2016) Fengling Zhang et al.   National Science Review

Dielectric constant enhancement of non-fullerene acceptors via side-chain modification

(2015) Jenny E. Donaghey et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

The future of organic photovoltaics

(2015) Katherine A. Mazzio et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Promising Strategy To Improve Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaics: Installing Permanent Dipoles in PCBM Analogues

(2015) Hilde D. de Gier et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Design Proposals for Organic Materials Exhibiting a Low Exciton Binding Energy

(2015) Stefan Kraner et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Study of Optical Properties and Molecular Aggregation of Conjugated Low Band Gap Copolymers: PTB7 and PTB7-Th

(2015) Fatima Bencheikh et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Beyond Fullerenes: Designing Alternative Molecular Electron Acceptors for Solution-Processable Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Geneviève Sauvé et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency >10% Enabled via a Facile Solution-Processed Al-Doped ZnO Electron Transporting Layer

(2015) Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Understanding Open-Circuit Voltage Loss through the Density of States in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2015) Samuel D. Collins et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Beyond Langevin Recombination: How Equilibrium Between Free Carriers and Charge Transfer States Determines the Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Timothy M. Burke et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Morphology Evolution in High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells Processed from Nonhalogenated Solvent

(2015) Wanzhu Cai et al.   Advanced Science

Strategy for Enhancing the Dielectric Constant of Organic Semiconductors Without Sacrificing Charge Carrier Mobility and Solubility

(2014) Solmaz Torabi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fullerene derivatives with increased dielectric constants

(2014) Fatemeh Jahani et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Fine Tuning of Polymer Properties by Incorporating Strongly Electron-Donating 3-Hexyloxythiophene Units into Random and Semi-random Copolymers

(2014) Bing Xu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Germanium- and Silicon-Substituted Donor-Acceptor Type Copolymers: Effect of the Bridging Heteroatom on Molecular Packing and Photovoltaic Device Performance

(2014) Jong Soo Kim et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Electron Collection as a Limit to Polymer:PCBM Solar Cell Efficiency: Effect of Blend Microstructure on Carrier Mobility and Device Performance in PTB7:PCBM

(2014) Samuel Foster et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High-Dielectric Constant Side-Chain Polymers Show Reduced Non-Geminate Recombination in Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2014) Namchul Cho et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

25th Anniversary Article: A Decade of Organic/Polymeric Photovoltaic Research

(2013) Letian Dou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

25th Anniversary Article: Rise to Power - OPV-Based Solar Parks

(2013) Frederik C. Krebs et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells

(2013) Nadia Camaioni et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Side-Chain Tunability via Triple Component Random Copolymerization for Better Photovoltaic Polymers

(2013) Wei-Hsuan Chang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Influence of fluorine substituents on the film dielectric constant and open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaics

(2013) Pinyi Yang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Effects of the Molecular Weight and the Side-Chain Length on the Photovoltaic Performance of Dithienosilole/Thienopyrrolodione Copolymers

(2012) Ta-Ya Chu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Factors Limiting Device Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics

(2012) René A. J. Janssen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Quantitative Determination of Organic Semiconductor Microstructure from the Molecular to Device Scale

(2012) Jonathan Rivnay et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Improved thin film morphology and bulk-heterojunction solar cell performance through systematic tuning of the surface energy of conjugated polymers

(2012) Ying Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Bithiopheneimide–Dithienosilole/Dithienogermole Copolymers for Efficient Solar Cells: Information from Structure–Property–Device Performance Correlations and Comparison to Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione Analogues

(2012) Xugang Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fluorine substituted thiophene–quinoxalinecopolymer to reduce the HOMO level and increase the dielectric constant for high open-circuit voltage organic solar cells

(2012) Yunzhang Lu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione and Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]silole Copolymer with a Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.3%

(2011) Ta-Ya Chu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Measurement of Charge-Density Dependence of Carrier Mobility in an Organic Semiconductor Blend

(2010) Christopher G. Shuttle et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2010) Christoph J. Brabec et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Open-circuit voltage limit caused by recombination through tail states in bulk heterojunction polymer-fullerene solar cells

(2010) Germà Garcia-Belmonte et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Prediction of charge-transfer excitations in coumarin-based dyes using a range-separated functional tuned from first principles

(2010) Tamar Stein et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Influence of the Intermediate Density-of-States Occupancy on Open-Circuit Voltage of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Different Fullerene Acceptors

(2010) Germà Garcia-Belmonte et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Charge dissociation in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells with enhanced permittivity

(2008) M. Lenes et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS